related works
Berceuse héroïque : Arrangement for orchestra / Claude Debussy; arranged by Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2ob 2fg 4h 3tpt 3trb 2hp timp perc str
Petite suite : harpe, opus 69, 1974 / Léon Orthel
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
Cinq-plus-cinq : voor harp / Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hrp
Her voice : for harp / Calliope Tsoupaki
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