related works
Images oubliées : for orchestra / Claude Debussy; orchestrated by Bart Visman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl ob eh 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 3trb tb timp perc hp str
Le chat rouge : pour deux harpes, 1983 / Cor de Groot
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
2hp
Her voice : for harp / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp
Au revoir : harpe (ou piano) / Cor de Groot
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
hp/pf
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