related works
Children's Corner : Version for ensemble / Claude Debussy; arranged by Michel Havenith
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl cl/cl-b h hp 2vn vla vc db
Harploper : voor 2 harpen / Rita Hijmans
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
2 hp
Moai terék nliydang : harp solo, 1976 / Hans Christian Detlefsen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
Fuga voor harpen : 1961, opus 62 / Géza Frid
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
3hp
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