related works
Musique qui sent la table et la pantoufle : for soprano and ensemble, 2004 / Mayke Nas
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr cl trp perc pf vl vc
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players); Harp
Scoring:
4hp / hp / vc hp
Boerderij-muziek : 12 voorspeelstukjes, voor de kleine -of Ierse harp in Es, 1983 / Cor de Groot
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp; Piano; Accordion
Scoring:
hp/pf/acc
Arphia-sonatine : harp, 1954 / Henri C. van Praag
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
composition
Ballade : for two harps / Claude Debussy, arranged for two pedal harps by Eva Tebbe
Other authors:
Tebbe, Eva
(Orchestrator)
Debussy, Claude
(Composer)
Description:
One century has passed since Claude Debussy left the world of the living. His music keeps haunting us as an inevitable natural phenomenon.
Debussy’s fascination with Russian music is manifest in the Ballade (1890), originally named Ballade Slave. During the Eighties he spent a few summers in Russia on the invitation of Tchaikovski’s patron, madame Nadezhda Von Meck, and hence got in touch with the great Russian composers. The work, originally written for piano solo, evokes a Russian fairy tale-like atmosphere and is narrative in its character.
Translation: Jan Tazelaar