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String Quartet in G Minor: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project; 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
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]
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.
From 2007 to 2015, the IMSLP / Petrucci Music Library used a logo based on a score. The score image in the background was taken from the beginning of the first printed book of music, the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton. It was published in Venice, Italy in 1501 by Ottaviano Petrucci, the library's namesake. [5] [non-primary source needed]
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. [2] [3] In 1939 the Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet created an orchestration of the suite. Movements:
Both dances are in D, the first principally in Dorian mode and the second principally in Lydian. The theme of the Danse sacrée appears to have been borrowed from that of the Danse du voile, by Debussy's friend Francisco de Lacerda. [15] The Danse sacrée is marked Très modéré, the metronome mark is ♩ =120 and the time is 3 2. [16]
[1] [3] Debussy's trio for flute, viola and harp is known a staple for the ensemble and the model that inspired other composers to write for the same instrumentation. [ 6 ] [ 1 ] Both of these early works for flute, viola and harp demonstrate the ensemble's unique sound, paving the way for numerous trios by various composers in the twentieth ...
Claude Debussy's Études are a set of 12 piano études composed in 1915. Debussy described them as "a warning to pianists not to take up the musical profession unless they have remarkable hands". [1] They are broadly considered his late masterpieces. [a] Étude 1 pour les cinq doigts d'après Monsieur Czerny (five fingers, "after Monsieur Czerny")