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- Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’: The Story Behind The Masterpiece
- The Soul of Symbolism
- Can We Hear The Poem in Debussy’s Music?
- Can I Play It? – Featuring A Lesson with Lang Lang
- Debussy’s Own Advice on How to Play ‘Clair de Lune’
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Debussy actually wrote three ‘Clair De Lunes’. The idea is from a poem by Paul Verlaine in his collection entitled Fêtes Galantes, themselves inspired by the paintings of Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Debussy set six of these poems to music, including this one, first in 1882, then again in 1891. The piano piece dates originally from 1890 and wa...
Watteau’s paintings are stylised, delicate portrayals of courtly life and love in idyllic pastoral settings, the protagonists sometimes costumed for masquerades as Commedia Dell’Artecharacters (Harlequin, Pierrot, Columbine, et al). Verlaine took up this atmosphere of disguise and implied hidden desires and carried it into the late 19th century’s S...
Only to a certain degree, perhaps – because originally the piece had a completely different title, which was ‘Promenade Sentimentale’. That, too, is from Verlaine, after verses from his Poèmes Saturniens. But when Debussy decided to switch to the more descriptive and precise ‘Clair De Lune’, he probably had a good reason to do so. The work shares t...
In terms of piano technique ‘Clair De Lune’ is simpler than many of Debussy’s other pieces, but it does have complications of its own. In particular, we need to pay attention to the quality of touch and sound and the subtle gradations of dynamics within those mainly muted colours. Lang Lang says the opening of Debussy’s ‘Clair De Lune’ is like glim...
Interestingly, we also have Debussy’s own advice on how to play ‘Clair De Lune’. The pianist Maurice Dumesnil once visited the composer for a coaching session and wrote an article about what he had learned. He reports that Debussy did not want the triplets in the first section to be too strictly in time: there should be “a general flexibility”. Dum...
Debussy’s ‘Clair De Lune’ is featured on Lang Lang’s album Piano Book– a collection of pieces that first inspired Lang Lang to play the piano as a child and led him on his path to international stardom. Lang Lang said, “I dedicate this album to my wonderful piano students and all my friends around the world who love the piano as much as I do.” Buy ...
Learn about the origin, meaning and musical features of Debussy’s best-loved piano piece, inspired by a poem by Paul Verlaine. Watch Lang Lang perform the work and get his tips on how to play it.
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Clair de lune is the third movement of Suite bergamasque, a four-part piano work by French composer Claude Debussy. It is based on a folk song about the moon and reflects Debussy's interest in the circus spirit of early 20th-century music.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Claude-Achille Debussy - Clair de Lune (Mondglanz, Mondschein, Moonlight), Suite Bergamasque, Debussy, piano. The Suite bergamasque was first composed in 189...
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Claire de Lune (typeface), a typeface by Debriey; Clair de Lune is the name of the 9th level in the video game Ultrakill.
Clair de lune (Debussy, Claude) This title can refer to three different works by Debussy: The famous piano piece entitled Clair de lune is No.3 of the Suite bergamasque. A song to text by Paul Verlaine is No.3 in the first book of Fêtes galantes.
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Clair de lune" (French for "Moonlight") is a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque. Debussy also made two settings of the poem for voice and piano accompaniment.
