The Petite Suite was premiered at a private concert on March 1, 1889, by Debussy himself and Jacques Durand, its publisher.
Composition History
The Première Suite dʼorchestre, a large-scale work on this album, was only first published in 2008, making it a recent discovery.
Performer Biography
Jean-Pierre Armengaud, one of the pianists on this recording, has an international career with a repertoire from Bach to Boulez and has recorded the complete piano works of Debussy, Satie, Roussel, and Denisov.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Even in his earliest works, Debussy was reluctant to use straightforward repetition, instead incorporating subtle modifications into repeated material to create constantly evolving forms.
Composer Biography
Claude Debussy, the composer, spent three summers working for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patron, Nadezhda von Meck, two of them in Russia.
Composition History
Debussy's Six Épigraphes antiques partially reuses incidental music he wrote in 1900-1901 for a reading of Pierre Louÿs' Chansons de Bilitis, which was originally scored for two flutes, two harps, and celesta.
Composition History
The Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire was commissioned by General John Meredith Read, an American army officer of Scottish descent and consul-general to France.
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