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Chapter 31 - Performance Today: Hearing Debussy Anew on Period Instruments

from Part VI - Performers, Reception, and Posterity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2024

Simon Trezise
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Trinity College Dublin
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In recent decades the interest in ‘period performance’ has moved beyond the Classical and early Romantic periods to embrace early twentieth-century composers, including Debussy. Beginning in the 1990s with recordings on pianos with which he would have been familiar, the movement has extended to his works in other genres. This chapter looks briefly at some of the major developments in period recordings of the composer’s piano music, mélodies, and orchestral works. The best of these recordings show that in hearing these pieces on the instruments of his day we may gain new insights into his compositional and scoring choices as well as his own performance practice. In short, hearing performances on these instruments allows us new insights into the composer’s sound-world and also throws potential light on reasons behind some of his compositional choices in particular works.

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Debussy in Context , pp. 291 - 298
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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