One Piano Four Hands-Debussy 'Petite Suite' arranged for one piano four hands. Edited by Weekley and Arganbright. A French composer of piano music opera cantatas ballets and orchestral and chamber works. His most notable pieces are 'Prélude l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun)' (1894) and 'Nocturnes' (1899). Inspired often by pictorial subjects (Monet's water impressions became 'reflections in the water' for piano) and by the elusive and unnameable in nature (footsteps in the snow still leaves and the hypnotic overwhelming sensations of his rare visits to the French coastline) Debussy's music develops chords melodies and orchestration that are connected moreby a single surreal observation than by an overriding logic. For example one note is similar to another in a distantly related enharmonic chord but this brief tie is enough to follow or a single gesture will soon evolve spreading outward in all directions until a whole orchestral piece is made from a single falling line ('Afternoon of a Faun'; 'Jeux'). Not bad for a kid born over his parents' china shop who loved Lassus and Palestrina as much as ragtime and Javanese music. Blue Gene Tyranny
SKU: HL.50565843
PNODT inches. English-French.
This critical edition of the Petite Suite is an excerpt from the COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY, Series I, volume 9. The titles of the movements of the Petite Suite, 'Cortege' and 'Ballet', evoke the universe of both the Premiere Suite d'orchestreand Fetes galantes by Paul Verlaine ('Cortege' and 'En bateau'), several poems from which Debussy began to set as early as 1882.The contract that Debussy signed with the editors Durand, Schoenewerk & Cie for the Petite Suite is dated 8 December 1888. The work appeared at the beginning of the following year; the 'depot legal', (legal deposit) of the work, was accomplished on12 February 1889. It is difficult to believe that the Petite Suite, which became one of Durand's bestselling items during the composer's lifetime, was at first not appreciated by those who heard it.
Claude Debussy's Petite Suite for Piano 4-hands.
SKU: AP.0034B
ISBN 9781576239483. UPC: 029156607673. 9x12 inches. English.
This volume in our new series features 29 compositions by Claude Debussy, including such famous pieces as 'Clair de Lune,' 'Reverie,' 'The Girl with the Flaxen Hair,' 'Golliwogg's Cake Walk,' and others. It includes pieces from the French master's wealth of piano compositions, including the 'Arabesques,' PETITE SUITE, CHILDREN'S CORNER SUITE, both books of 'Preludes,' and individual pieces. A wide variety of music from the French impressionistic genius! 29 titles on 160 pages.
