Classical Composer: | Debussy, Claude |
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Work: | Première rapsodie (version for clarinet and orchestra) |
Year Composed: | 1911 |
Instrumentation: | 1 solo, 3.3.2.3 - 4.2.0.0 - 0.1 ps, 2 harp, 8.7.6.5.4 str, |
Publishers: |
C.F. Peters Leipzig Edwin F. Kalmus The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection Éditions Durand C.F. Peters Corporation |
Duration: | 00:21:00 |
Period: | 20th Century |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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The Première Rapsodie pour orchestre avec clarinette principale was published in 1910 in its first version, for clarinet and piano, and in the orchestral version the following year. The work was intended for use in a Conservatoire competition, together with a short test of sight-reading. It was dedicated to Prosper Mimart, the professor for whose class it was designed, and it was Mimart who gave the first performance of the original version in January 1911 for the Société Musicale Indépendante. Debussy was pleased with the work, if not with most of the Conservatoire competitors. Marked at the beginning Rêveusement lent, the Rapsodie offers the contrasts of tempo and mood necessary in a competition piece, but it is the feeling of the opening, dreaming, that predominates.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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