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Achille-Claude Debussy Composer

Le roi Lear, L.107

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Le roi Lear, L.107
Year: 1904
Genre: Incidental Music
Pr. Instrument: Orchestra
- 1.Fanfare
- 2.Le Sommeil de Lear

Debussy wrote some five minutes of music for a presentation of King Lear in 1904. Unfortunately, he did not go farther than two excerpts: a powerful fanfare of a minute and a half which opens and closes with loud trumpets and percussion surrounding a central section of a more pensive nature, and a three-minute intermezzo called "Le Sommeil de Lear" (Lear Asleep), an excerpt of meditative but uneasy atmosphere.

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Debussy , A.C. Dukas , P. Griffes , C. T. Ravel , M. Satie , E.	Medieval Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic Late- / Post-Romantic Impressionist Modern Contemporary

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Le roi Lear, L.107

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