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Performance of String Quartet by the Borromeo String Quartet at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in MP3 format 'Debussy Quartet in G minor, Op. 10', lecture by Roger Parker and performance by the Badke Quartet at Gresham College, 29 January 2008; Notes by Ong Yong Hui (archived via Internet Archive) Notes by Keith Anderson
The effects of the First World War and an interest in baroque composers Couperin and Rameau inspired Debussy as he was writing the sonatas. Durand, in his memoirs entitled Quelques souvenirs d'un éditeur de musique, wrote the following about the sonatas' origin: After his famous String Quartet, Debussy had not written any more chamber music.
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]
Debussy c. 1900. Dances for Harp and String Orchestra, in full in the original, Danses pour harpe chromatique avec accompagnement d'orchestre d'instruments à cordes (Dances for chromatic harp with string orchestra accompaniment), is a 1904 work by Claude Debussy.
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.
IMSLP logo (2007–2015) The blue letter featured in Petrucci Music Library logo, used in 2007–2015, was based on the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501. [5] From 2007 to 2015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score.
Meanwhile, Debussy's Scènes au Crépuscule, after Régnier's poetry, were completed in piano score in 1893, but before Debussy had a chance to orchestrate them he attended the premiere performance of his String Quartet in G minor in December, given by the Ysaÿe Quartet led by Belgian violin virtuoso Eugène Ysaÿe. [13]
The Petite Suite was orchestrated by Debussy's colleague Henri Büsser in 1907, and published by A. Durand & Fils.Büsser's transcription calls for two flutes (second doubling piccolo), two oboes (second doubling cor anglais), two clarinets, two bassoons, two horns, two trumpets, timpani, percussion (cymbals, tambourine and triangle), harp, and strings. [4]