| Debussy Inconnu: Album of works for the piano by Claude Debussy completed by Robert Orledge, Vol. 1 Piano seul [Conducteur] Musik Fabrik
By Nicolas Horvath. By Robert Orledge and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Redi...(+)
By Nicolas Horvath. By
Robert Orledge and Claude
Debussy (1862-1918).
Rediscoverd Debussy.
Christmas. Score. Musik
Fabrik #MFCD017A.
Published
by Musik Fabrik
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| Debussy Inconnu: Album of works for the piano by Claude Debussy completed by Robert Orledge, Vol. 2 Piano seul [Conducteur] - Intermédiaire Musik Fabrik
Piano - Grade 5 SKU: FA.MFCD017B By Nicolas Horvath. By Claude Debussy an...(+)
Piano - Grade 5 SKU:
FA.MFCD017B By
Nicolas Horvath. By
Claude Debussy and Robert
Orledge. Rediscoverd
Debussy. Christmas.
Score. Musik Fabrik
#MFCD017B. Published by
Musik Fabrik
(FA.MFCD017B). 8.27 x
11.69
inches. Contains Le
Roi Lear:
Prelude,Premiere Fanfare,
and La Mort de
Cordelia,Toomai des
elephants, Rodrigue et
Chimene: Prelude a l'acte
1p. Le Martyre de Saint
Sebastien: La Passion ,
and No-ja-li ou Le Palais
du Silence
From
Robert Orledge's
notes:
My interest
in the wonderful music of
Claude Debussy began in
the 1980s when I
researched and published
a book with Cambridge
University Press entitled
Debussy and the Theatre.
During the course of my
studies in Paris, I was
amazed to discover that
Debussy planned over 50
theatrical works but only
finished two of these
entirely by himself (the
opera Pelleas et
Melisande in 1893-1902
and the ballet Jeux for
Diaghilev's Ballets
Russes in 1912-13). Of
the rest, many were never
started musically (like
Siddartha and Orphee-roi
with the Oriental scholar
Victor Segalen, 1907);
some had a few
tantalising sketches
(like the Edgar Allan Poe
opera Le Diable dans le
beffroi, 1902-03); some
were half-finished (like
his other Poe opera La
Chute de la Maison Usher,
1908-17); while others
were musically complete
but had their
orchestrations completed
by other composers (like
Khamma, by Charles
Koechlin, 1912-13; or Le
Martyre de Saint
Sebastien and La Boite a
joujoux by his 'angel of
corrections' ['l'ange des
Corrections'] Andre
Caplet in 1911 and 1919
respectively).
For
it has to be admitted
that what some scholars
call Debussy's
'compulsive achievement'
could equally well be
viewed as laziness,
especially as far as the
minute detail required
for calligraphing his
orchestral scores was
concerned. It was as if
creating the music itself
was of greater importance
than controlling its
final sound, even if
Debussy was an
imaginative orchestrator
when he found the time
and energy to do it. It
also seems true that
Debussy also preferred
inventing ideas to
turning them into
complete pieces. However,
despite the lack of
detail in many of his
sketches (missing clefs,
key signatures, dynamics,
phrasing, etc.) the notes
themselves are
surprisingly accurate,
whether or not they can
be compared with a later
draft. Thus, a large
number of sketches exist
for his Chinese ballet
No-ja-li ou Le Palais du
Silence and it is not too
difficult to see which
parts of Georges de
Feure's 1913 scenario
(see below) inspired
which ideas. But Debussy
hardly made any attempt
to join them together
after the first few
bars.
It was
usually up to his
publisher, Jacques
Durand, to find solutions
when Debussy risked a
breach of contract.
Debussy was supposed to
supervise the
orchestrations completed
by others, but this
supervision was usually
very light and restricted
to quiet, sensitive
moments in which problems
were easier to spot. Far
from jealously guarding
every one of his created
notes, as Ravel did,
Debussy once even went as
far as to ask Koechlin to
'write a ballet for him
that he would sign' on 26
March 1914 when he was
hard-pressed to fulfil
his lucrative contract
for No-ja-li with Andre
Charlot at the Alhambra
Theatre in London. In the
end, Debussy (through
Durand) sent Charlot the
symphonic suite Printemps
instead, whose
orchestration had been
completed by Henri Busser
in the Spring of
1912.
So, when I
was offered early
retirement as Professor
of Music at Liverpool
University in 2004, I
seized the opportunity it
would give me to spend
time trying to
reconstruct some of
Debussy's lost potential
masterpieces from his
existing sketches and
drafts--then
orchestrating them in
Debussy's style when this
was appropriate. I had
begun this mission in
2001 with the most
promising project, the
missing parts of Scene 2
of La Chute de la Maison
Usher and the sheer joy
it gave me at every stage
persuaded me to tackle
other projects,
especially when Debussy
experts were unable to
identify exactly where I
took over from Debussy
(and vice versa) in
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Viola and Piano SKU: BT.EMBZ627 Composed by Gyula David. Book Only. Compo...(+)
Viola and Piano SKU:
BT.EMBZ627 Composed
by Gyula David. Book
Only. Composed 1952. 52
pages. Editio Musica
Budapest #EMBZ627.
Published by Editio
Musica Budapest
(BT.EMBZ627).
Gyula Dávid
(1913-1977) was one of
the most important
members of the generation
of Hungarian composers
who followed Bartók
and Kodály. His ?uvre
includes stage,
orchestral, oratorial,
chamber, and solo
instrumental works.
Although he rarely quoted
folk material directly in
his music, folksong,
popular music and the
spirit of the Hungarian
musical tradition
permeates his works. In
the last two decades of
his life he wrote atonal
and twelve-tone
compositions. With his
Wind Quintet (composed
1949) he created a genre
which plays an important
role in the new Hungarian
music. Gyula Dávid
studied composition with
Albert Siklós and
Zoltán Kodály at
the Academy of Music in
Budapest,graduating in
1938. Between 1938 and
1945 he worked in several
orchestras as viola
player. From 1945 to 1949
he was conductor at
Hungarian National
Theatre, than he became
leader of the Ensemble of
the Hungarian Army. From
1961 to his retirement he
was professor at the
Teacher Training Faculty
of the Academy of Music
in Budapest. Between 1951
and 1960 he taught wind
chamber music, music
theory and wind
orchestration at the
Academy of Music. He was
one of the founders of
the Hungarian Artists'
Union. He was awarded the
Erkel Prize (1952, 1955)
and the Kossuth Prize
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Born in Bicester in 1931, Anthony Hedges studied music at Keble College, Oxford,...(+)
Born in Bicester in 1931,
Anthony Hedges studied
music at Keble College,
Oxford, and left
university with a first
class honours degree and
a post-graduate degree in
composition. Following
National Service as solo
pianist and arranger with
the Royal Signals Band,
he spent the next five
years as a lecturer at
the Royal Scottish
Academy of music. During
that time he was a
regular contributor on
music to many national
newspapers and journals.
In 1962 he moved to Hull
University where, he
became, until his
retirement in 1995,
Reader in Composition. In
1972 he was elected
Chairman of The
Composers' Guild of Great
Britain, served as
joint-Chairman in 1973
and was subsequently
elected to the Guild's
Council. He has been a
member of the music
panels of Yorkshire Arts
and Lincolnshire and
Humberside Arts, the
Music Board of C.N.N.A.,
and a Council member of
the S.P.N.M. A Council
member of Westminster
Central Music Library for
15 years, he instituted
its publishing scheme for
contemporary British
scores. As a pianist he
has given regular solo
recitals, and as an
accompanist has worked
with many leading
performers. In the late
1970s he founded the
Humberside Sinfonia with
whom he gave numerous
successful concerts as
well as recording a
highly-praised LP of his
music. Anthony Hedges is
equally successful in
many types of music. His
serious music has
received wide critical
acclaim; his light music
enjoys numerous
broadcasts, recordings
and public performances.
He has also written much
music for children and
amateurs as well as
having composed for film,
stage, ballet and
television. His works
have been performed by
many major British
orchestras and heard
worldwide in many
hundreds of broadcast and
public performances. In
1991 he was the featured
composer in the Riga
Festival of British Music
and Film and was
subsequently invited back
to Latvia to conduct
further performances of
his works. A prolific
composer, much of his
output has resulted from
commissions - over 60 to
date*. In 1990 Hull
Central Library
established an Archive
collection of all his
compositions and working
sketches. A CD of his
light orchestral music
was issued in 1997
(Naxos/Marco Polo) and
many CD recordings have
followed on various
labels. In the same year
he was awarded an
honorary D.Mus. by the
University of Hull
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