Claude Debussy News
French classical composer (1862–1918)
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- opera, classical music, impressionist music
- Second French Empire, French Third Republic, France
- composer, pianist, music critic
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2024-03-15 12:49:58
LEBRECHT LISTENS | Klaus Mäkelä And L’Orchestre De Paris Offer Arresting Results With Stravinsky, Less So With Debussy
Klaus Mäkelä and l'Orchestre de Paris perform Petrushka with arresting results, but while Stravinsky sparkles, Debussy becomes positively soporific.
2024-03-08 11:10:00
[…] phrases enabled strings to take over again, in turn inaugurating a slower moving, constantly shifting section. Further musical scampering, almost suggesting a ‘classical’ return of material in ternary form – suggesting, not straightforwardly representing – brought the piece to its conclusion. The players were joined by pianist Tomoki Kitamura for Toshio Hosokawa’s Oreksis for piano quintet. Again, this was a very different musical world: not only the soundworld, but procedures, preoccupations, everything. Post-‘impressionist’? Perhaps. Post-Debussy? A somewhat stronger perhaps. But it was not only, or principally, post-anything, however helpful such thoughts may be to gain our initial bearings. Centres of gravity proved very different, lines emerging from them, whilst those centres remained obstinately, strangely alluring. The pianist was not a ‘soloist’, yet had a somewhat different role, seemingly growing from the piano’s different instrumental qualities. (That may sound obvious, but it is far from always the case.) Dreamlike in […]
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-03-05 14:38:31
On the verge of its centennial, a full-size Boston Civic Symphony thundered through Carl Nielsen's Inextinguishable, dreamed Claude Debussy's Faune, and introduced 16-year-old competition winner violinist Dana Chang in Henri Wieniawski's second concerto on Sunday afternoon. [] The post appeared first on The Boston Musical Intelligencer.
2024-02-26 15:10:33
Luigi Dallapiccola, Part I, 2024
[…] of Croatia. The Austrians sent the Dallapiccola family to Graz as subversives (Luigi, not being able to play the piano, enjoyed the opera performances there); they returned to Pisino only after the end of the war. Luigi studied the piano in Trieste and in 1922 moved to Florence, where he continued with piano studies and composition, first privately and then at the conservatory. During that time, he was so much taken by the music of Debussy that he stopped composing for three years, trying to absorb the influence. A very different influence was Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, which Luigi heard in 1924 at a concert organized by Alfredo Casella (in the following years, Casella would become a big supporter and promoter of Dallapiccola’s music). Upon graduation, Dallapiccola started giving recitals around Italy, later securing a position at the Florence Conservatory where he taught for more than 30 years, till 1967 (among […]
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