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The suite, which was composed from 1886 to 1889, [1] was first performed on 2 February 1889 by Debussy and pianist-publisher Jacques Durand at a salon in Paris. [2] It may have been written due to a request (possibly from Durand) for a piece that would be accessible to skilled amateurs, as its simplicity is in stark contrast with the modernist works that Debussy was writing at the time.
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 (piano suite) Images pour orchestre; M. Le Martyre de saint Sébastien; La mer (Debussy) N. Nocturnes (Debussy) P. Petite Suite (Debussy) Pour le piano; S. Six ...
[1] [3] Debussy composed little piano music during the 1890s and focused on opera and orchestral music. [4] He completed the suite in 1901, revising Sarabande. [5] He also dedicated the revised version of Sarabande, as well as the third movement, Toccata, to Yvonne Lerolle, now Mme E. Rouart. [3] The suite was published in 1901 by Eugène Fromont.
Debussy, a lifelong admirer of Verlaine's poetry, had taken a copy of the collection with him when he went to study in Rome in 1885. [1] Although other composers, from Gabriel Fauré to Benjamin Britten set Verlaine's poetry, Debussy, according to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , was the first composer of any importance to do so.
Completed in July 1914, the suite was Debussy's only completed composition that year. In 1915 Debussy transcribed them for piano solo. [ 1 ] Much of the music (over 100 measures ) is taken from the musical accompaniments he had written in 1901 for his friend Pierre Louÿs 's erotic lesbian poems Les Chansons de Bilitis .
Jeux (Games) is a ballet written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. Debussy initially objected to the scenario but reconsidered the commission when Diaghilev doubled the fee.
Bizet orchestrated six of these; in addition to No. 8, Nos. 6, 3, 2, 11, 12 became his Petite Suite; it is probable he also orchestrated No. 4. [2] The remaining movements were later orchestrated by Roy Douglas (5 numbers) and Hershy Kay (2 numbers) and a complete orchestral suite has been recorded as Jeux d'enfants.