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The sonata for violin and piano in G minor, L. 140, was written in 1917. It was the composer's last major composition and is notable for its brevity; a typical performance lasts about 13 minutes. The premiere took place on 5 May 1917, the violin part played by Gaston Poulet, with Debussy himself at the piano. It was his last public performance. [7]
an alternate piece for No. 11 of Douze Études L 143, it has no musical relation to that piece, though Debussy composed the two simultaneously; discovered 1977, published as Étude retrouvée. 146: 138: Élégie: piano 1915 150 – Les Soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon: piano 1917 discovered Nov. 2001, published 2003 – – Rapsodie in ...
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 ...
The piece makes use of modes and whole-tone and pentatonic scales, as is typical of Debussy's style. It also uses many types of extended cello technique, including left-hand pizzicato, spiccato and flautando bowing, false harmonics and portamenti. The piece is considered technically demanding. The work takes about 10 minutes to perform.
"Beau soir" ("Beautiful Evening") is set to a poem by Paul Bourget. The poem paints the picture of a beautiful evening where the rivers are turned rose-colored by the sunset and the wheat fields are moved by a warm breeze. Debussy uses a gently flowing triplet rhythm in the accompaniment, which contrasts the duplets that drive the light melody ...
12 for violin with continuo and cello, five for violin and keyboard; Sonatas for violin and harpsichord BWV 1020, 1022; Johann Christian Bach. Nine (Op. 10 and 20), also several flute sonatas that can be played with violin; Johann Sebastian Bach. Solo sonatas BWV 1001, 1003 and 1005, included in Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin (1720)
"Clair de lune" (Debussy), a piano piece by Debussy, third movement of his Suite bergamasque, L. 75 (1905), inspired by the Verlaine poem "Clair de lune" (Fauré), setting of the Paul Verlaine poem by Fauré, from his Two Songs, Op. 46 (1887) Clairs de lune, a set of four piano pieces, each titled "Claire de Lune", by Abel Decaux (1907)
The piece is 39 measures long and takes approximately two and a half minutes to play. It is in the key of G ♭ major. The piece, named after the poem by Leconte de Lisle, is known for its musical simplicity, a divergence from Debussy's style at the time. Completed in January 1910, it was published three months later and premiered in June of ...