related works
Ballade : for two harps / Claude Debussy, arranged for two pedal harps by Eva Tebbe
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Harp
Scoring:
2hp
Symphonie no. 6 : opus 45, 1960-'61 / Léon Orthel
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3332 4331 timp perc cel hp str
Space of time : for orchestra, 1990 / Jan Rokus van Roosendael
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl-a 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 3fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb 3perc glock(cel) pf str
Hommage à Andriessen : voor orkest / Herman Strategier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4330 timp perc str
composition
Six épigraphes antiques / orchestrated for small orchestra by Rudolf Escher, 1975-1977, Claude Debussy
Other authors:
Escher, Rudolf
(Orchestrator)
Debussy, Claude
(Composer)
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