Debussy, C :: 'Bilitis'

  • $27.95
  • Composer
    Debussy, Claude
  • Instrumentation
    Flute & Piano
  • Publisher
    Universal Edition [UE16954]
  • Editor
    Lenski, Karl
  • Orchestration
    fl, pn
  • Includes CD or Audio Download
    No
  • Classification
    Not Applicable
  • Genre
    Undefined
  • Contents
    • I. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d’ete
    • II. Pour un tombeau sans nom
    • III. Pour que la nuit soit propice
    • IV. Pour la danseuese aux crotales
    • V. Pour l’Egyptienne
    • VI. Pour remercier la pluie au matin
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Universal Edition presents 'Bilitis' by composer Claude Debussy, arranged here for flute and piano by Karl Lenski. 

The editor writes about this piece, 'In December 1894 Pierre Louys published the lyric cycle 'Bilitis,' a succession of poems eulogising the ancient Greek beauty of the same name which he claimed to be a "translation from the Greek." According to the preface, Bilitis had lived in the 6th century BC, and the 'songs' had been engraved on her tomb in her memory. It was only a short time after the publication of the 'Chansons de Bilitis" that they were exposed as a harmless fraud: the poet was Pierre Louys himself. 

'The present edition follows the 'Six Epigraphes Antiques' in No. I-V but the 'Chansons de Bilitis" in No. VI because it was in the sixth of the 'Epigraphes' that Debussy diverged the furthest from the first version. 

'The flautist is required to play with an extremely subtle, poetic and colourful range of tone, while the pianist needs the consistency, fluent graciousness and imagination implicit in the poetic material.'

  • Composer
    Debussy, Claude
  • Instrumentation
    Flute & Piano
  • Publisher
    Universal Edition [UE16954]
  • Editor
    Lenski, Karl
  • Orchestration
    fl, pn
  • Includes CD or Audio Download
    No
  • Classification
    Not Applicable
  • Genre
    Undefined
  • Contents
    • I. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d’ete
    • II. Pour un tombeau sans nom
    • III. Pour que la nuit soit propice
    • IV. Pour la danseuese aux crotales
    • V. Pour l’Egyptienne
    • VI. Pour remercier la pluie au matin

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