{"product_id":"841732-2","title":"Thiollier - Debussy - Piano Works, Volume 2 [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaude Debussy (1862-1918)Piano Music, Vol. 2     Le petit negre (The Little Negro) (1909)  Children's Corner (1906-08)  La bo?\\xabte ?\\xe1 joujoux (1913)  Six epigraphes antiques (1914)Claude Debussy was born in 1862, the son of a shop-keeper who was later to   turn his hand to other activities, with varying success. He started piano lessons   at the age of seven and continued two years later, improbably enough, with Verlaine's   mother-in-law, who claimed to have been a pupil of Chopin. In 1872 he entered   the Conservatoire, where he abandoned the plan of becoming a virtuoso pianist,   turning his principal attention to composition. In 1880, at the age of eighteen,   and in the following two summers, he was employed by Tchaikovsky's patroness   Nadezhda von Meck as tutor to her children and house-musician. On his return   to the Conservatoire from the first of these visits abroad, he entered the class   of Bizet's friend Ernest Guiraud and in 1884 won the Prix de Rome, the   following year reluctantly taking up obligatory residence, according to the   terms of the prize, at the Villa Medici in Rome, where he met Liszt. By 1887   he was back in Paris, winning his first significant success in 1900 with Nocturnes   for orchestra and going on, two years later, to a succes de scandale   with his opera Pelleas et Melisande, based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck,   a work that established his position as a composer of importance. Debussy's personal life brought some unhappiness in his first marriage in   1899 to a mannequin, Lily Texier, after an intermittent liaison of some ten   years with Gabrielle Dupont. His association from 1903 with Emma Bardac, the   wife of a banker and an amateur singer, led to their eventual marriage in 1908.   In the summer of 1904 he had abandoned his wife, moving into an apartment with   Emma Bardac, and the subsequent attempt at suicide by his wife, who had shared   with him the difficulties of his early career, alienated a number of the composer's   friends. His final years were darkened by the war and by cancer, the cause of   his death in March 1918, when he left unfinished a planned series of chamber   music works, describing himself patriotically as musicien fran?\\xbaais, only   three of which had been completed.As a composer Debussy must be regarded as one of the most important and influential   figures of the earlier twentieth century. His musical language suggested new   paths to be further explored, while his poetic and sensitive use of the orchestra   and of keyboard textures opened still more possibilities. His opera Pelleas   et Melisande and his songs demonstrated a deep understanding of poetic language,   revealed by his music, expressed in terms that never overstated or exaggerated. Le petit negre (The Little Negro), written in 1909, is in the   mood of the earlier Golliwogg's Cake-Walk, included in Children's   Corner. It appeared in Throdore Lack's Methode de piano. Children's Corner is a set of pieces publi\u003cp\u003eThe Petit Negre\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren's Corner Suite: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren's Corner Suite: Jimbo's Lullaby\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren's Corner Suite: Serenade For A Doll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren's Corner Suite: The Snow Is Dancing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren's Corner Suite: The Little Shepherd\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChildren's Corner Suite: Golliwog's Cake-Walk\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa bo\\xef\\xbf\\xbdte a joujoux: Prelude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa bo\\xef\\xbf\\xbdte a joujoux: 1er tableau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa bo\\xef\\xbf\\xbdte a joujoux: 2eme tableau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLa bo\\xef\\xbf\\xbdte a joujoux: 3eme tableau - Epilogue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpigraphes antiques: I. Pour invoquer Pan, dieu du vent d'\\xef\\xbf\\xbdt\\xef\\xbf\\xbd\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEpigraphes antiques: II. 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