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Achille-Claude Debussy Composer

D'un cahier d'esquisses, L.99

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Tracks: 15

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D'un cahier d'esquisses, L.99
Year: 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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Debussy , A.C. Dukas , P. Falla , M. d. Griffes , C. T. Ravel , M. Satie , E.	Medieval Renaissance Baroque Classical Romantic Late- / Post-Romantic Impressionist Modern Contemporary

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