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
Préludes: Premier livre : for orchestra / Claude Debussy / Luc Brewaeys
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2fl fl-a(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 2trb tb 3perc hp cel str
Het lied van Hertog Jan / arr. Louis Toebosch
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
2222 4231 timp perc str
Nazomer : for orchestra / Loek Dikker
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
orch
Litany of the victims of war : for orchestra, 1985 / Tera de Marez Oyens
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Instruments:
fl-pic fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 2trb trb-b tb timp 3perc str
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