 | The Songs of Bilitis I. La flûte de Pan Claude Debussy Piano and Voice |
Trois Chansons de Bilitis
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(by Dewagtere, Bernard)360x⬇ 187x
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| Composer |  Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918) | ||
| Instrumentation | Piano and Voice | ||
| Sheet central | Chansons de Bilitis (10 sheet music) 3 other versions | ||
| Style | Early 20th century | ||
| Arranger |  | ||
| Date | 1894 | ||
| Copyright | Copyright © Dewagtere, Bernard | ||
| Added by bernard-dewagtere, 04 Jul 2011
The Songs of Bilitis (Les Chansons de Bilitis) is a
collection of erotic poetry by Pierre Louÿs and
published in Paris in 1894. The book's sensual poems
are in the manner of Sappho; the introduction claims
they were found on the walls of a tomb in Cyprus,
written by a woman of Ancient Greece called Bilitis, a
courtesan and contemporary of Sappho, to whose 'life'
Louÿs dedicated a small section of his book. On
publication, the volume deceived even the most expert
of scholars. Though the poems w...(+)
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