Debussy: Images - 2e série
2nd Series
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- Composer: Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
- Editor: Douglas Woodfull-Harris
- Instrumentation: Piano
- Work: Images (Set 2), CD 120, L 111
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- Size: 9.6 x 12.2 inches
- Pages: 28
- Urtext / Critical Edition
Description
Debussy confidently wrote to his publisher Jacques Durand in August 1905: "I believe without unwarranted vanity that these three pieces will prove to be good and that they will take a prominent place in the literature of piano music to the left of Schumann or to the right of Chopin as you like it." Debussy's Images, already popular during hiss lifetime, delight with their iridescent tone colour and dazzling harmonies which reflect the newest discoveries in harmonic chemistry. The virtuosic second series is notated throughout on three staves.
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