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La mer was the second of Debussy's three orchestral works in three sections, the other being Nocturnes (1892–1899) and Images pour orchestre (1905–1912). The first, the Nocturnes, premiered in Paris in 1901 and though it had not made any great impact on the public, it was well-reviewed by musicians including Paul Dukas, Alfred Bruneau and Pierre de Bréville.
Music video; on YouTube "La Mer" ("The Sea") is a song by the French composer, lyricist, singer and showman Charles Trenet. The song was first recorded by the French ...
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 ...
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.
Debussy: La Mer: Orchestra Stabile Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma: Studio recording for HMV (not issued until 1997), Teatro Argentina, Roma Testament SBT 1108 February 1948 Rossini: William Tell (overture) Orchestra of Santa Cecilia: Studio recording for HMV Grammofono 2000 AB 78852, EMI References 7243 56550629, Naxos 8.111049-50 ,
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 ...
The 20th century is over; there's nothing wrong with looking at all of 20th century music and deciding that La Mer is the greatest orchestral work.128.194.39.250 00:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC) The expression "greatest work" (actually it just says " one of the greatest orchestral works") is not to be understood in an athletics sense I think.
"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 ...