Claude Debussy’s two books of Preludes, implying homage to both Chopin and Bach, revel in the composer’s innovative piano techniques. Among French music’s most avant-garde expressions, they also contain some of Debussy’s most atonal sorties. The second book was published in 1913.
Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C.: The comic picture of Dickens’ protector of the Pickwick Club and its papers uses the English national anthem to spoof Pickwick’s high calling to investigate “the source of the Hampstead ponds.”Tanya Gabrielian
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Claude Debussy
Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C., from Préludes Book II Play
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Claude Debussy’s two books of Preludes, implying homage to both Chopin and Bach, revel in the composer’s innovative piano techniques. Among French music’s most avant-garde expressions, they also contain some of Debussy’s most atonal sorties. The second book was published in 1913.
Hommage à S. Pickwick, Esq., P.P.M.P.C.: The comic picture of Dickens’ protector of the Pickwick Club and its papers uses the English national anthem to spoof Pickwick’s high calling to investigate “the source of the Hampstead ponds.” Tanya Gabrielian
More music by Claude Debussy
Hommage à Rameau, from Images, Book 1
Sonata for Cello and Piano
La Puerta del Vino, from Préludes Book II
Poissons d’or, from Images, Book II
Soiree dans Grenade, from Estampes
Rapsodie (arr. Rousseau)
Beau Soir
Reflets dans l’eau, from Images, Book 1
Ondine, from Préludes Book II
Bruyères, from Préludes Book 2, No. 5
Performances by same musician(s)
Papillons in C-sharp Major, Op. 2
Piano Sonata 1.X.1905, From the Street
Adagio from Organ Concerto, BWV 593 (after Concerto Op. 3 No. 6 of Vivaldi)
Allegro con fuoco, alla breve in E-flat Major, from Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33
Moderato in g minor, from Etudes-Tableaux Op. 33
Grave in c-sharp minor, from Etudes-Tableaux , Op. 33
Scherzo No. 3 in c-sharp minor, Op. 39
La Puerta Del Vino, from Préludes, Book II
Feux D'Artifice, from Préludes, Book II
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