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Images (usually pronounced in French as ) is a suite of six compositions for solo piano by Claude Debussy. [1] They were published in two books/series, each consisting of three pieces. These works are distinct from Debussy's Images pour orchestre. The first book was composed between 1901 and 1905, and the second book was composed in 1907. [2]
Writing "images", Debussy was purposely intending not to create linear musical progression, but a sonic representation of water. Reflets dans l'eau is also an example of the new tone colors Debussy discovered for the piano in this part of his life, and although he later refined this style, it is representative of a major breakthrough in piano ...
Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar (Achille) Claude Debussy [n 1] was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at ...
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Claude Debussy c. 1910. This is a complete list of compositions by Claude Debussy initially categorized by genre, and sorted within each genre by "L²" number, according to the 2001 revised catalogue by musicologist François Lesure, [1] which is generally in chronological order of composition date.
Images pour orchestre, L. 122, is an orchestral composition in three sections by Claude Debussy, written between 1905 and 1912. Debussy had originally intended this set of Images as a two-piano sequel to the first set of Images for solo piano, as described in a letter to his publisher Durand as of September 1905. However, by March 1906, in ...
Brouillards ("Mists" or "Fog") is the first piece of Claude Debussy's second set of piano préludes.It can be considered as the most harmonically complex of the entire series of preludes, hinting at polytonality.
Edward Lockspeiser (21 May 1905 – 3 Feb 1973) was an English musicologist, composer, art critic and radio broadcaster on music who specialized in the works and life of French composer Claude Debussy and was considered one of the few British authorities on French classical music.