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D'un cahier d'esquisses, L.99Year: 1904
Genre: Other Keyboard
Pr. Instrument: Piano
The title of Debussy's D'un cahier d'esquisses (From a Notebook of Esquisses; 1903) aptly describes the work's origin as a sketch for the composer's massive symphonic work La mer (1903 - 05). The work is quietly ethereal and highly original; at the same time, it presents a mixture of styles and ideas that prevent a cohesive effect (unsurprising, perhaps, given its purpose). Though rarely played, it survives as an exquisite novelty and provides a glimpse into the creation of one of the composer's best-known works.
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