Petite Suite - Orchestra version: Study score

by Claude Debussy, Henri Büsser

Originally composed for piano duet and published in 1889, Debussy's delightful suite was immediately popular. Its widespread popularity resulted in demands for an orchestral setting. The composer, too busy with new works, ultimately assigned the orchestration task to the conductor Henri Büsser. This new study score is an unabridged, digitally restored reissue of the full score first printed in 1908 by A. Durand et Fils, Paris. It is the orchestral version most widely performed and recorded.

1. En bateau
2. Cortege
3. Menuet
4. Ballet

Genres: Music

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Claude-Achille Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in his native France in 1903. Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed.

Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent usage of non-traditional tonalities. The prominent French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.

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