related works
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl cl h perc hp 2vn vla vc db
Souvenir de Dublin : for Irish harp (or piano solo), 1980 / Cor de Groot
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp; Piano
Scoring:
(Irish-)hp/pf
Pour le tombeau d'Orphée : danse élégiaque pour harpe seule / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
In memoriam Rosa Spier : voor harp-solo / Jurriaan Andriessen
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