Provided to youtube by warner classics fetes galantes, l. Learn the text of this work by claude debussy with the help of a native speaker. The title refers to a folk song that was the conventional accompaniment of scenes of the lovesick pierrot in the french pantomime, and indeed the many pierrotlike associations in debussys later music, notably in the orchestral work images 1912 and the sonata. The piece was influenced by poetry, baroque music and the. En sourdine, the first song of the first fetes galantes triptych. The nook book ebook of the fetes galantes set 1, no. By that time it had been partially rewritten as well as retitled. Wordforword translations and ipa transcriptions of songs and arias in latin, italian, german, and french in pdf format. The idea is from a poem by paul verlaine in his collection entitled. One such is dimitri tiomkins arrangement for organ in the score for the 1956 film giant. The poem has also been set to music by gabriel faure and josef szulc. Ce poeme a ete mis en musique par deux grands compositeurs francais.
Suite bergamasque debussy, claude redirected from suite bergamasque debussy, claude. The suite bergamasque has been orchestrated by many conductors, including andre caplet, leopold stokowski, and lucien cailliet. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of claude debussys 1890 suite bergamasque. Fetes galantes is a cycle of six melodies composed by claude debussy to poems by paul. Debussy also made two settings of the poem for voice and piano accompaniment. They lived together until debussys death, getting married in 1908. Fetes galantes, 1er recueil debussy, claude movementssections movtssecs. Such works would have been especially suited to performance within the. The change in nomenclature would seem to speak for itself.
The french poet was associated with the symbolist movement. Although debussy wrote the piece in 1890 at the age of 25, it was not published until 1905. Individual pdf parts attached as zip to complete parts file. The original name of this piece was promenade sentimentale. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading fetes galantes set 1, no. But some ten years later, with the love affair well behind him, he returned to all three poems, presumably feeling that none of the earlier settings had done them. Fetes galantes for voice and piano high claude debussy, sergius kagen on. Colloque sentimental yeardate of composition yd of comp. The original 1882 cycle was 5 songs see above, which was changed to a total of 6 in 2 books by 1903. Fetes galantes ii, l114 debussy from cda67357 hyperion. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. The composer charles koechlin analyzed these youthful songs, which the young. This title can refer to three different works by debussy. Debussy detestava il precedente stile pianistico in cui erano stati scritti questi pezzi.