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Claude Debussy

Notable works by Claude Debussy.

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Afternoon of a Faun (Nijinsky)

The Afternoon of a Faun () is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main

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Afternoon of a Faun (Robbins)

Afternoon of a Faun is a neoclassical ballet choreographed by Jerome Robbins to Claude Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune. The ballet features two young dancers meeting at a rehearsal

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Ariettes oubliées

Ariettes oubliées (Forgotten Songs) is a song cycle for voice and piano, L. 60 by Claude Debussy, based on poems by Paul Verlaine. The work consists of six pieces, with an approximate run time of

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Beau soir

"Beau soir" (French for Beautiful Evening, or Evening Fair), L. 84, is a French art song written by Claude Debussy, first published in 1891. It is a setting of a poem by Paul

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Cello Sonata (Debussy)

The Cello Sonata (Sonate pour violoncelle et piano), L. 135, is a sonata for cello and piano by Claude Debussy. It consists of three movements: Prologue, Sérénade and Finale. It was composed and

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Children's Corner

Children's Corner, L. 113, is a six-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was first performed by Harold Bauer in Paris on 18 December that year. In

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Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire

The Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire (L 64) constitute a song cycle for voice and piano by Claude Debussy, on poems taken from Les Fleurs du mal by Charles Baudelaire. Composed from December 1887 to

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Dances for Harp and String Orchestra

Dances for Harp and String Orchestra, in full in the original, Danses pour harpe chromatique avec accompagnement d'orchestre d'instruments à cordes (Dances for chromatic harp with string orchestra

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Debussy Mélodies

Debussy Mélodies is a 178-minute studio album of sixty of Claude Debussy's art songs, presented roughly in order of composition, performed by Elly Ameling, Michèle Command, Mady Mesplé, Frederica von

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En blanc et noir

En blanc et noir (; ), L. 134, CD. 142, is a suite in three movements for two pianos by Claude Debussy, written in June 1915. He composed the work on the Normandy coast, suffering from cancer and

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Estampes

Estampes (Prints), L. 100, is a composition for solo piano by Claude Debussy. Finished in 1903, the first performance of the work was given by Ricardo Viñes at the Salle Érard of the Société

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Études (Debussy)

The Études (CD 143) are the final collection for piano by Claude Debussy, comprising twelve pieces composed between 5 August and 29 September 1915. Divided into two books and dedicated to the memory

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Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (Debussy)

Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (L.73/CD.72), is a composition for piano and orchestra by French composer Claude Debussy. It was composed between October 1889 and April 1890, but only received its

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Fêtes galantes (Debussy)

Fêtes Galantes is a cycle of six mélodies composed by Claude Debussy to poems by Paul Verlaine. It consists of two books of three songs (FL 86 and FL 114). The songs were composed over several years,

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Images (piano suite)

Images (usually pronounced in French as ) is a suite of nine compositions for solo piano by Claude Debussy. They were published in two books/series, each consisting of three pieces. These works are

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Images pour orchestre

Images pour orchestre, L. 122, is an orchestral composition in three sections by Claude Debussy, written between 1905 and 1912. Debussy had originally intended this set of Images as a two-piano

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Jeux

Jeux (Games) is a ballet written by Claude Debussy. Described as a "poème dansé" (literally a "danced poem"), it was written for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreography by Vaslav

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L'enfant prodigue (Debussy)

L'enfant prodigue (The Prodigal Son) is a scène lyrique, or lyric scene, by Claude Debussy to a text by Édouard Guinand. Scored for soprano, tenor, baritone and piano, it bears the catalog number

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L'isle joyeuse

L'isle joyeuse, L. 106 (The Joyful Island) is a piece for solo piano by Claude Debussy composed in 1904. It is assumed that the painting The Embarkation for Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau served as

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La boîte à joujoux

La boîte à joujoux (The Toy-Box) is a ballet score by Claude Debussy. The composer completed the work as a piano score, but he died before he was able to orchestrate it. A successful orchestration

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La chute de la maison Usher (opera)

La chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) is an unfinished opera in one act (divided into two scenes) by Claude Debussy to his own libretto, based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1839 short

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La Damoiselle élue

La Damoiselle élue (The Blessed Damozel), L.69a, is a poème lyrique, or lyric poem, for soprano and alto soloists, two-part women's chorus and orchestra composed by Claude Debussy in 1888 to a text

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La mer (Debussy)

La mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre (French for The sea, three symphonic sketches for orchestra), or simply La mer (The Sea), L. 109, CD. 111, is an orchestral composition by the

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La plus que lente

La plus que lente, L. 121 (, "The more than slow"), is a waltz for solo piano written by Claude Debussy in 1910, shortly after his publication of the Préludes, Book I. The piece debuted at the New

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Le diable dans le beffroi

Le diable dans le beffroi (The Devil in the Belfry) is an unfinished comic opera in one act by Claude Debussy to his own libretto, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Devil in the

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Le Martyre de saint Sébastien

Le Martyre de saint Sébastien is a five-act musical mystery play on the subject of Saint Sebastian, with a text written in 1911 by the Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio and incidental music by the

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Nocturnes (Debussy)

Nocturnes, L 98 (also known as Trois Nocturnes or Three Nocturnes) is an Impressionist orchestral composition in three movements by the French composer Claude Debussy, who wrote it between 1892 and

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Nuit d'étoiles

"Nuit d'étoiles" is a mélodie by Claude Debussy based on a poem by Théodore de

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Pelléas et Mélisande (Herbert von Karajan recording)

Pelléas et Mélisande is a 162-minute studio album of Claude Debussy's opera, performed by Christine Barbaux, José van Dam, Nadine Denize, Ruggero Raimondi, Frederica von Stade, Richard Stilwell and

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Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)

Pelléas et Mélisande (Pelléas and Mélisande) is an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy. The French libretto was adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play of the same name. It

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Petite Suite (Debussy)

The Petite Suite, L 65, is a suite for piano four hands by Claude Debussy. It has been transcribed many times, most notably in an orchestral version by Debussy's colleague Henri Büsser. The suite,

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Piano Trio (Debussy)

The Piano Trio in G major, L. 5 (revised Lesure catalogue; originally L. 3), was written by an 18-year-old Claude Debussy in 1880 in Fiesole, Italy, where he resided at Nadezhda von Meck's. Most of

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Pour le piano

Pour le piano (For the piano), L. 95, is a suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It consists of three individually composed movements, Prélude, Sarabande and Toccata. The suite was completed and

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Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune (L. 86), known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem for orchestra by Claude Debussy, approximately 10 minutes in duration. It was

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Première rhapsodie

The Première rhapsodie (First Rhapsody), L. 116, CD. 124, by Claude Debussy is a piece for accompanied clarinet. Composed between December 1909 and January 1910, it was dedicated to the French

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Rêverie (Debussy)

Rêverie is a musical composition for piano by Claude Debussy, written in

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Rhapsodie for saxophone and orchestra

Rhapsodie for saxophone and orchestra, L.98, also known as Rhapsodie mauresque or Rhapsodie orientale, is a piece for alto saxophone and accompaniment by Claude Debussy. Completed in solo and piano

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Rodrigue et Chimène

Rodrigue et Chimène (English: Rodrigo and Ximena) is an unfinished opera in three acts by Claude Debussy. The French libretto, by Catulle Mendès, is based on the plays Las Mocedades del Cid by

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Six sonatas for various instruments

Claude Debussy's Six sonatas for various instruments () was a projected cycle of sonatas that was interrupted by the composer's death in 1918, after he had composed only half of the projected

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String Quartet (Debussy)

Claude Debussy completed his String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 (L.91), in 1893, when he was 31 years old. It is Debussy's only string

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Suite bergamasque

Suite bergamasque (L. 75) () is a piano suite by Claude Debussy. He began composing it around 1890, at the age of 28, but significantly revised it just before its 1905 publication. The popularity of

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Syrinx (Debussy)

Syrinx, L. 129, is a piece of music for solo flute which Claude Debussy wrote in 1913. It generally takes three minutes or less to perform. It was the first significant piece for solo flute after the

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The Little Nigar

The Little Nigar (CD 122, L. 114) is the original title by composer Claude Debussy for a short piece for piano, composed in 1909 for a piano method and published the same year. It was later also

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Trois Chansons (Debussy)

Trois Chansons (French for "Three Songs"), or Chansons de Charles d’Orléans, L 99 (92), is an a cappella choir composition by Claude Debussy set to the medieval poetry of Charles, Duke of Orléans

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Two Arabesques

The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891. The arabesques contain

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