Classical Composer: | Debussy, Claude |
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Work: | L'isle joyeuse (arr. B. Molinari for orchestra) |
Year Composed: | 1904 |
Instrumentation: | 3.3.4.3 - 4.4.3.1 - timp.4perc - cel.2hp - str |
Publishers: |
Éditions Durand The Edwin A. Fleisher Music Collection |
Duration: | 00:07:00 |
Period: | 20th Century |
Work Category: | Orchestral |
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Claude Debussy's piano piece L'isle joyeuse was written in 1904, with the present orchestration, to which the composer gave his approval, by the Italian conductor Bernardino Molinari. The piece belongs to the world of Verlaine's Fêtes galantes, here drawing more directly, in its title, from Watteau's painting L'embarquement pour Cythère, the embarkation for Cythera, the island of Venus and love. The painting, made in 1717, four years before Watteau's death, brought him acceptance as one of the group of artists associated with the pastoral artificiality of the fêtes galantes. Debussy, who claimed in conversation that L'isle joyeuse was pure imagination, nevertheless recaptures something of Watteau's blend of happiness and poignancy, or of his near contemporary Verlaine's own evocation of the joys of Cythère.
Writer: Keith Anderson
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