Debussy, Claude 1862-1918
Works: | 22,766 works in 65,982 publications in 16 languages and 451,632 library holdings |
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Genres: | Symphonic poems Scores Suites Preludes (Music) Chamber music Musical settings Operas Criticism, interpretation, etc Personal correspondence Songs |
Roles: | Author, Composer, Arranger, Instrumentalist, Performer, Creator, Librettist, Editor, Musician, Contributor, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Adapter, Dedicatee, Honoree, Compiler, Conductor, Dedicator, Lyricist, htt, Recipient, Author of introduction, Correspondent, Illustrator, 236 |
Classifications: | ML410.D28, 782.1 |
- The Cambridge companion to Debussy by Simon Trezise( )
- Debussy by Eric Frederick Jensen( )
- Debussy and the fragment by Linda Cummins( )
- Montale, Debussy, and modernism by Gian-Paolo Biasin( )
- Debussy : man and artist by Oscar Thompson( Book )
- The art of French piano music : Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier by Roy Howat( )
- The music of Claude Debussy by Richard S Parks( Book )
- The lives and times of the great composers by Michael Steen( Book )
- The rhythm of thought : art, literature, and music after Merleau-Ponty by Jessica Wiskus( )
- Debussy in performance by James R Briscoe( Book )
- Debussy letters by Claude Debussy( Book )
- Debussy : a painter in sound by Stephen Walsh( Book )
- Afternoon of a faun : how Debussy created a new music for the modern world by Harvey Lee Snyder( )
- The theories of Claude Debussy, musicien français by Léon Vallas( Book )
- The life of Debussy by Roger Nichols( Book )
- Claude Debussy by David J Code( )
- Prelude to 'The afternoon of a faun' : an authoritative score, Mallarmé's poem, backgrounds and sources, criticism and analysis by Claude Debussy( )
- Claude Debussy and the poets by Arthur Wenk( Book )
- The poetic Debussy : a collection of his song texts and selected letters by Claude Debussy( Book )
- Debussy : musician of France by Victor Seroff( Book )


597 editions published between 1927 and 2022 in 11 languages and held by 7,638 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Star conductor Simon Rattle leads a superb cast in this mesmerizing performance of Debussy's rarely staged opera. Stéphane Degout and Magdalena Kožená are the tragic title couple--lovers caught in a web of passion as strong as it is forbidden. Gerald Finley delivers a remarkable portrayal of Golaud, Mélisande's husband and Pelléas's half-brother, and Felicity Palmer is their mother, Geneviève. Willard White brings dramatic and vocal intensity to the brief but crucial role of the blind old king Arkel
198 editions published between 1913 and 2020 in 9 languages and held by 3,848 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
932 editions published between 1900 and 2020 in 11 languages and held by 3,446 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Orchestra sinfonica di Milano della radiotelevisione italiana ; Sergiu
368 editions published between 1893 and 2018 in 9 languages and held by 2,692 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Debussy began work on the composition of his only string quartet in 1892. Little documentary evidence, save for one or two passing oblique references in letters to friends remains to indicate his rate of progress. The final movement, however, caused him no little trouble, and only in August 1893 did Debussy feel able to write to his colleague André Poniatowski that "I think I can finally show you the last movement of the quartet, which has made me really miserable!" Cast in the traditional four movements, Debussy's Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 has as its most distinctive feature its overarching preoccupation with timbre and sonority. The work as a whole offers a compendium of string-playing techniques, yet it also displays a concision of thought rare, perhaps, in a composition often regarded (along with the quartet by Ravel) as one of the seminal impressionist works in the string quartet genre. Its fascinating and readily palpable thematic concentration seems all the more remarkable when one realizes that the very first theme of the opening movement (Animé et très décidé) comes to furnish almost all of the diverse thematic components for the entire work. Another ingenious feature (possibly less immediately apparent to the listener at first hearing) is that the quartet is less dominated by melodic or harmonic considerations than by a rhythmic flexibility which carries the potential for seemingly endless variety. In this respect, Debussy's string quartet seems to strongly prefigure those by Bartók. Yet it remains unmistakably a work dominated by the sensuality and longueurs of French late nineteenth century Romanticism, a strong feature of the slow third movement (Andantino doucement expressif). The work is also strongly predictive of the disjunctive and highly polarized new musical language that would assert itself in the two decades following its completion. The Scherzo (Assez vif et bien rythmé), for example, makes use of the disruptive sonic confrontations that can occur when rapidly alternating pizzicato and bowed passages produce what one commentator has described as "a confusion that forces the listener to concentrate on the textures, rather than the linear form of the music." These apparently disparate elements are then welded together in a finale of striking economy of means, and only at the close does it become really clear that the opening gestures of the work have actually altered themselves and coalesced to produce an organic unity of some 25 minutes' duration. The work was to be dedicated to Ernest Chausson, whose personal reservations eventually diverted the composer's original intentions. Debussy sold his score for a mere 250 francs to the publishers Durand & Cie, who, as he later recalled, "were cynical enough about it to freely admit that what they were paying me didn't cover all the labor this 'work' has entailed." Not surprisingly, the quartet was widely misunderstood at its premiere, given by the Ysayë Quartet on December 29, 1893. At the time, the composer Guy Ropartz was the lone voice in a wilderness of critical lack of interest; he described the quartet as a work "dominated by the influence of young Russia (interestingly, Debussy's patroness in the early 1880s had been Nadezhda von Meck, better known for her support of Tchaikovsky); there are poetic themes, rare sonorities, the first two movements being particularly remarkable." - Michael Jameson on allmusic.com
142 editions published between 1967 and 2020 in 7 languages and held by 2,354 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Defining a new style of music, the Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune has all the sensuous heat of a summer day, while Debussy's exquisite painting in sound and mastery of the orhcestra conjures up the sea in La Mer, night in the Nocturnes, and Spain in Iberia
97 editions published between 1951 and 2018 in 7 languages and held by 2,178 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Recorded at the Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, Oct. 1992
94 editions published between 1967 and 2021 in 6 languages and held by 2,137 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Program about the visual aspects of Debussy's music
106 editions published between 1936 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 2,108 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ariettes oubliées: Six poèmes de Paul Verlaine pour voix et piano / Fêtes galantes, premier recueil: Trois poèmes de Paul Verlaine pour voix et piano / Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire pour voix et piano
85 editions published between 1950 and 2020 in 6 languages and held by 1,751 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pierre-Laurent Aimard celebrates the 150th birthday of pioneering composer Claude Debusswy with an album that showcases his profound affinity for the composer?s works
201 editions published between 1944 and 2020 in 8 languages and held by 1,736 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Contents: Images, Prelude a l'apres, La mer
312 editions published between 1882 and 2021 in 9 languages and held by 1,621 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Discover the tonality and richness of Debussy's works in the famous "Clair de Lune." The third movement of Debussy's Suite bergamasque is one of his best-known compositions. The dreamlike quality of the music illustrates the fluidity of Debussy's style. "Clair de lune" is French and translates to "moonlight."?
153 editions published between 1957 and 2012 in 8 languages and held by 1,617 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
176 editions published between 1952 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 1,404 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
196 editions published between 1900 and 2007 in 8 languages and held by 1,396 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
31 editions published between 1971 and 1998 in 4 languages and held by 1,349 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Collects the essays and reviews of the great French composer, together with interviews with him, in which he comments on the composers and musical events of his day and on his own philosophy of music
191 editions published between 1908 and 2020 in 9 languages and held by 1,252 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
245 editions published between 1900 and 2019 in 9 languages and held by 1,233 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Description du matériel d'orchestre : 3.3.2.4./6.3.2.3.1, timbales, grosse caisse, cymbales, tam-tam, triangle, 2 harpes, glockenspiel, cordes
199 editions published between 1890 and 2018 in 6 languages and held by 1,191 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Description du matériel d'orchestre : 2 conducteurs, 1.1.2.1./2.0.0.0, cordes
344 editions published between 1892 and 2016 in 7 languages and held by 1,175 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse: Manuscrit dédié à Gabrielle Dupont, qui le donna à Alfred Cortot. Ce dernier le céda par la suite à la Robert Owen Lehman Foundation
36 editions published between 1951 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 1,174 WorldCat member libraries worldwide


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