Claude Debussy Museum - Girl with the Flaxen Hair

[jtedsto]

This is so beautiful. I can't help but weep when I hear this because my heart knows I don't deserve to hear something so pure.

[nevilleanimusic]

Really nice. Reminds me of the time I went to visit Kodaly's museum in Budapest. Must dig out that video and put some music to it ... And do a guitar arrangement of the above piece!

[kamillianne]

lovely

[FaithIsAnnoyed]

This is pure bliss to listen to...always relaxes me.

[GH3master21]

The beggining reminds me alot of most songs from Yoshis Island DS!

[kittygram51]

Beautiful to the ear and eyes; thank you

[MusicalOxygen]

Did you ever get to perform in the concert hall on the 3rd floor?

[piano4film]

@MusicalOxygen no, but I would like to. have you?

[elixiress]

I'd love to go to this museum. I love Debussy's work...such tranquil beauty, all of his pieces.

[piano4film]

@elixiress the museum is well-worth the trip.

[groovychickstwo]

I'm trying to play this for my GCSE solo piece, so beautiful and yet so hard to get perfect. I love Debussy x

[BeauJames59]

just take it apart down to little, managable parts, and remember, you can still work on it after that......keep up the beauty, it's worth it......

[CaixaDeSol]

I play this song on the violin, but I adore its original piano form. <3

If only I could play the piano...

[Choo69]

@CaixaDeSol It's quite easy, just spend 7 years of your life :D

[CaixaDeSol]

You know what? =) I think I'll do it lol

[Choo69]

@CaixaDeSol ok, message me in 7 years, we could do a piano suite together.

[CaixaDeSol]

haha <3 :D

[MrGazmo]

Tallnotmuchhair

My heart go'es out to you!

God bless.

[GuinnevereB]

Why would anyone give a "thumbs-down" to _dthofapianoplyr_'s comment? The music makes her/him feel something, and that's what music is for.

My (admittedly) surface impression of Debussy is that he was not a snob about his music; what's more, in my opinion, trying to belittle someone's emotional response to a lovely melody is rather despicable. But maybe it has nothing to do with this particular comment; could it be a carryover from a disagreement elsewhere?

[Iffychan93]

This is my all time favourite piece to play. If anyone asks me to play something on the spot, it's always this song. So beautiful, and a little sad in its own way...

[auerstadt06]

You obviously are not familiar with the etudes.

[BirdsongVids]

Oh my gosh, you just put perfectly into words what I've never been able to quite put my finger on for years.

[JohnZackarias]

Such a beautiful piece of music.

[danpianoman1]

Holy shit, you're right. Just casual conversation, but something very reminiscent.

[tallnotmuchhair]

This brings back emotional memories of a partner who passed away over ten years ago.

Such beautiful music...

[71dogface]

fleeting glimpse of a strange woman, and that glimpse causes him to fall in love with her, and he remembers that moment with a helpless sadness.

I thought that only happened to me. Some sort of a disorder. Your telling me I may be normal ? How many women have you seen once, often just a glimpse, and never forgot ? I have lost count. -DF

[sprygeoffreya17]

No, you are not normal in the sense that normal means 'typical', because most people are not realy Romantic, which I believe is the disorder we have. And, of course, DeBussy had it, too. Jeeez!, I've lost count, too. But, like an unexpected smell of roses, only better, I enjoy the bitter-sweet reminder that I am the way I am. You are luckier than normal!

[piechamp31]

guys would never feel that way about me =(

[71dogface]

You don't know that. We (guys) have many different ideas of what is attractive and draws our attention.

And a secret attraction is just that. Secret.I vividly remember a white girl I laid eyes on once breifly. Not Caucasian white, as in fair skinned. Driven snow white. You may have more admirers than you will never know. :o) --DF

[Iffychan93]

I've written piano pieces about people, complete strangers, who've somehow left an impression on me. The first one I wrote was about a guy who I met one day. I had the most amazing day of my life but never saw him again. I always hope that some twist of fate will make us meet one another again, but life just doesn't work that way. It's a pity :(

[sprygeoffreya17]

I feel, always, every time I hear this, the very first time I heard this piece, it is the audio expression of what a man feels after a fleeting glimpse of a strange woman, and that glimpse causes him to fall in love with her, and he remembers that moment with a helpless sadness. All this I get from this one little crumb of a song that, I think, is perfectly and purposely composed.

[SABOREAME68]

Another brilliant execution, you don't cease to amaze your viewers. However, I await your apprise regarding my request; until them Ciao!

[debussy75]

So beautiful. I have to go to france to see that magical place.

[piano4film]

You really should. It transformed my impressions of Debussy and how I play his music.

[EngulfedHearts]

So darn beautiful. Debussy is right up there with Chopin as my favorite composer of all time.

[SkyiiSluuviinqYou]

es ist wunderschön (:

[bellebrett]

How lovely! :)

[superlimone]

Debussy is the best

[illyriato]

@superlimone

vous avez raison! I visited his birthplace in the Rue au pain before it was converted into a museum,many years ago,Then I went to the museum and there was a cabinet which contained his Conductor's dress suit. For an instant I put my hand into the top lefthand breastpocket and I had a strange feeling that I had 'communicated' !

illyriato

[bonniebr22]

Since im a child, my dad always said this was my song...." Mi pequeña Debussy, del cabello de lino" ...When i was 17 i had to leave and my country and live in a culture that isnt mine...i spend each day feeling sad, but when i listen this piece i feel in home, i even smell the food of my father and see the smile in my brother face.

Sorry for my bad english

[ramtha9]

It is good to keep that great love in your heart. It keeps you well. This is a wonderful piece to me. Best of all things to you!

[piano4film]

Thanks...that is such a sweet image..

best of luck!

[ohsleeper]

@bonniebr22 wtf

[Polygor]

Were it not for Debussy I would never have gotten into classical music. Do you have a similar film of Ravel?

[EngulfedHearts]

though i think what you said is awesome - Debussy is pretty much King, he was actually part of the Romantic Period, not the Classical Period :P. I know i'm all technical and that must be annoying but just lettin' ya know :).

And IMO, the Romantic Era utterly trumped the Classical Period in beauty in music. But that's just me lol, some people find it a little tooo "poetic".

[AaronBenJoseph]

no actually debussy hated the term impressionist and if someone is impressionist that does not mean they have their own era it is just a genre within that era for example Berg writes atonal music but that does not mean he is not a 20th century/modern composer.

[piano4film]

Debussy vacillated on Impressionism. At times he was a Symbolist, at times an Impressionist, and in general he did not want to be labeled as anything. But there was a point he mentioned Impressionism and his work in the same breath.

[Polygor]

Thank you. I knew I'd read that point re- Impressionism somewhere.

[piano4film]

Not yet, but I may one day!

[YGYGYGYGYGYGYGYGYG10]

Que bon.

[elichans]

history brought to life!

beautiful :)

[piano4film]

Thanks for the encouragement. I hope to bring a sense of Debussy's history to life with his music, photos, and words.

[poseidonea]

small room, a piano, old ladies and a room full of photographies then ...not much ado.

[hermanzoon]

Very nice. Thank you for posting this. Was this where he lived at some time in his life?

[piano4film]

This is the house where Debussy was born. He lived here for a short time while an infant until the family moved to Clichy, north of Paris.