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21 nov 2017 · It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque of the same name. 'Clair de lune' ('Moonlight') is from Verlaine's early collection Fêtes...
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Debussy sat down at a contraption called a Welte-Mignon reproducing piano and recorded a series of performances for posterity. The machine was designed to encode the nuances of a pianist's playing, including pedaling and dynamics, onto piano rolls for later reproduction, like the one above.
Claude Debussy plays Debussy | Complete recordings made by Claude Debussy: The Composer as Pianist. Compilation from all Debussy recordings available "Claud...
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7 lug 2018 · Debussy plays Debussy | Complete recordings made by Claude Debussy: The Composer as Pianist. Compilation from all Debussy recordings available "Claude Debussy Plays His Finest...
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- Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’: The Story Behind The Masterpiece
- The Soul of Symbolism
- Can We Hear The Poem in Debussy’s Music?
- Can I Play It? – Featuring A Lesson with Lang Lang
- Debussy’s Own Advice on How to Play ‘Clair de Lune’
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Debussy actually wrote three ‘Clair De Lunes’. The idea is from a poem by Paul Verlaine in his collection entitled Fêtes Galantes, themselves inspired by the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Debussy set six of these poems to music, including this one, first in 1882, then again in 1891. The piano piece dates originally from 1890 and wa...
Watteau’s paintings are stylised, delicate portrayals of courtly life and love in idyllic pastoral settings, the protagonists sometimes costumed for masquerades as Commedia Dell’Artecharacters (Harlequin, Pierrot, Columbine, et al). Verlaine took up this atmosphere of disguise and implied hidden desires and carried it into the late 19th century’s S...
Only to a certain degree, perhaps – because originally the piece had a completely different title, which was ‘Promenade Sentimentale’. That, too, is from Verlaine, after verses from his Poèmes Saturniens. But when Debussy decided to switch to the more descriptive and precise ‘Clair De Lune’, he probably had a good reason to do so. The work shares t...
In terms of piano technique ‘Clair De Lune’ is simpler than many of Debussy’s other pieces, but it does have complications of its own. In particular, we need to pay attention to the quality of touch and sound and the subtle gradations of dynamics within those mainly muted colours. Lang Lang says the opening of Debussy’s ‘Clair De Lune’ is like glim...
Interestingly, we also have Debussy’s own advice on how to play ‘Clair De Lune’. The pianist Maurice Dumesnil once visited the composer for a coaching session and wrote an article about what he had learned. He reports that Debussy did not want the triplets in the first section to be too strictly in time: there should be “a general flexibility”. Dum...
Debussy’s ‘Clair De Lune’ is featured on Lang Lang’s album Piano Book– a collection of pieces that first inspired Lang Lang to play the piano as a child and led him on his path to international stardom. Lang Lang said, “I dedicate this album to my wonderful piano students and all my friends around the world who love the piano as much as I do.” Buy ...
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The fourteen pieces Debussy recorded for Welte include the Symbolist- and Impressionist-inspired “La soirée dans Grenade,” previously featured here on Open Culture, as well as his most beloved and widely heard work, “Clair de lune.”
Achille-Claude Debussy, noto semplicemente come Claude Debussy, è stato un compositore e pianista francese. È considerato uno dei più importanti compositori francesi di sempre, nonché uno dei massimi protagonisti del simbolismo musicale. Nella sua musica confluirono le tematiche della scuola francese da Gounod a Fauré, la ricerca ...
