composer
(Achille) Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He ...
related works
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
pic 2fl fl-a ob ob(eh) 2cl fg perc cel 2hp str(8.6.4.4.)
Glimpse : for orchestra / Martijn Padding, 2010
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp timp str
Sinfonia: Luci nella notte : for orchestra / Andrzej Kwiecinski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
3fl 3ob 3cl 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb perc 2pf str
Spostamenti : per orchestra, (aug.-okt. 1963) / Jan van Vlijmen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
4333 6332 perc xyl vibr mar 2hp str(24.10.8.8.)
composition
Six épigraphes antiques / orchestrated for small orchestra by Rudolf Escher, 1975-1977, Claude Debussy
Other authors:
Escher, Rudolf
(orchestrator)
Contains:
Pour invoquer Pan, dieu de vent d'été
Pour un tombeau sans nom
Pour que la nuit soit propice
Pour la danseuse aux crotales
Pour l'Egyptienne
Pour remercier la pluie au matin
Description:
Program note (English): (First radio-performance: July 6, 1978 (broadcast 20 July) - Radio Kamerorkest, Ernest Bour, conducting; first concert performance: October 28, 1979 - Grote Zaal Concertgebouw, Amsterdam - Concertgebouworkest, Bernard Haitink, conducting).
In 1914, shortly before World War I and four years after his death in 1918, Debussy completed his Six épigraphes antiques, a suite of six short pieces for piano-four hands (...). The composition has a remarkable hasty texture and does not reveal a typical piano ornamentation; it is in certain sense already particel (score-design), which reveals a certain instrumental source on each page, the source of 'music for two harps, celesta and some woodwinds.' Especially the dominant place of the harps can be seen in the scores' written notes. Strengthened by the knowledge that Debussy (...) himself thought of an orchestration, I have considered my circumstances for the orchestration as a leading principle (...). - RUDOLF ESCHER