Monday, 12. June 2006, 18:30:59
Claude Debussy, English posts, France, music
Artist: Jason Ko
Title: "La cathédrale engloutie" by Claude Debussy
Year: 1997About "La cathédrale engloutie" and Monet's "Le parlament"La cathédrale engloutie (the sunken cathedral) is the tenth piece in Debussy’s Preludes, Book I. Debussy paints a vague image with this piece, just as Monet’s Le Parlement is vague. This painting is the perfect image of La Cathedrale engloutie.
While anyone can make out an image of a building in the background, the fog hides it. Even the images of small boats are there, but are clouded by the fog. As Debussy’s piece progresses, the cathedral seems to become more and more vague. Chords become bigger and louder, depicting the cathedral becoming engulfed, much like the building in Monet’s painting. | ©
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Friday, 9. June 2006, 21:47:08
Claude Debussy, English posts, France, music
Artist: Ruth Towers
Title: Finale to "Children's Corner" by Claude Debussy
Year: 2004Wikipedia about Children's CornerDebussy wrote his famous Children's Corner Suite (1909) for his beloved daughter whom he nicknamed Chou-chou.
These beautiful and poetic pieces recall classicism as well as a new wave of rag-time music. Debussy also pokes fun at Richard Wagner in the popular piece "Golliwogg's Cake-walk". | ©
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Finale to Children's Corner
Monday, 5. June 2006, 01:16:03
Claude Debussy, English posts, France, music
Artist: Ruth Towers
Title: Opening to "Children's corner" by Debussy
Year: 2004Claude Debussy and his Children's CornerDebussy was associated with many women, some of whom who were of doubtful reputation. One of his mistresses, Gabrielle Dupont, threatened suicide. Also, as is sometimes the case with artists of passionate intensity, Debussy held many thoughts of suicide.
In 1899, Debussy married Rosalie Texier, a dressmaker. He left her in 1904 for Emma Bardac, an amateur singer and the wife of a Parisian banker. He moved into an apartment with Emma in the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, where he spent the rest of his life. Debussy married Bardac in 1908, following the birth in 1905 of his one daughter, Claude-Emma, the "Chou-chou" to whom the Children's Corner Suite (1906-1908) was dedicated.
The orchestral works of Debussy have their parallels in much of his piano music, which comprise a significant part of the piano repertoire of the early Twentieth Century. Debussy's chief impressionistic works for the piano can be found in collections published between 1903 and 1913, including the two books of Images and two books of Preludes.
The features of this music are unique. The blurring of the soft pedal against attractive pianistic effects and a delicate poetic propensity is always evident. It is important to remember that impressionism only forms one aspect in the compositions of Debussy. His piano music sometimes displays a Hellenistic detachment as in his Children's Corner Suite. | ©
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Opening to Children's Corner
Wednesday, 31. May 2006, 21:54:15
Claude Debussy, English posts, France, music
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Artist: Ruth Towers
Title: "First Arabesque" by Claude Debussy
Year: 2004
Wikipedia about Claude DebussyAchille-Claude Debussy (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. He worked within the style commonly referred to as impressionist music, a term which he dismissed.
Debussy was not only one of the most important French composers but was also one of the most important figures in music at the turn of the last century; his music represents the transition from late-romantic music to 20th century modernist music. | ©
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Friday, 26. May 2006, 19:56:36
USA, Ruth Towers, music, France
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Artist: Ruth Towers
Title: "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy
Year: 2004
About Claude DebussyA French composer of piano music, opera, cantatas, ballets, and orchestral and chamber works. His most notable pieces are "Prélude à 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 more by 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. | ©
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