Debussy: Danse bohemienne (1880)

[ManosOceano]

@PianistofAnime Claude-Achille Debussy (1885): "I am too enamoured of my freedom; too fond of my own ideas."

[ManosOceano]

@PianistofAnime @PianistofAnime Our more poignant conundrum is why pendemic complacency of the most intelligent minds of our time compel cruelty.

[ManosOceano]

@PianistofAnime The next level of inspiration derived by art, is to share beyond home; toward the greater light of all human understanding; draw through our circumstances and above our realities; challenge ourselves via sharing our epiphanies, with our present self, immediate environment, family, community, world, universe, and maybe; just maybe, with infinite light.

[ManosOceano]

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[PianistofAnime]

@ManosOceano Why are you ruining everyone's enjoyment of this wonderful piece with the cruel world of politics, etc. ?

[azaquarium123]

"This was Debussy's first piano piece. At the time he composed it he was employed as a private musician in the house of Madame Nadezha von Meck, Tchaikowsky's patroness."

She writes to Tchaikowsky to tell him about Debussy and his piece and his reply is

"It is a most charming piece, perhaps a little short.."

From Dances of Debussy edited by Maurice Hinson.-Just a fun tidbit, I think I'll learn this piece next it's easier than Danse!

[DafniElissa]

what a beautiful painting, too!

[naughtyEagle]

epic. Getting maximum out of the piano.

[raulcat19]

@juiceforjoe Yeah atht aht time he didn't know Gamelan (which turned out to happen at the Worldexhibition in Paris in 1889!)

[kamikazemelon787]

@juiceforjoe it may seem that way, but Debussy was never really affected by Tchaikovsky's music, and was actually personally criticized by Tchaikovsky himself on this very piece of music. It's ironic that you posted that comment on this piece actually haha. The more you know!

[kamikazemelon787]

@kamikazemelon787 actually i'm dumb. Debussy took a lot of inspiration from Tchaikovsky.. sorry for the fuss...

[janraffaello]

@kamikazemelon787 indeed, I adore debussy and i really find this piece very very 'tsjaikowsky'. There's no blame in that, i adore both composers and you have to admit this is just a little early piece, very charming but not yet what debussy would become.

[TheWanderingNight]

@PhillipPark90 And this is why I respect him very much.

[TheWanderingNight]

Appropriately, this, to me, is more late-Romantic than 'Impressionistic'.

[speedskis777]

@TheWanderingNight I think so too... perhaps because he still relatively young when he composed it? Just a guess.

[opamamut]

@TheWanderingNight

It was his first piece. He was growing up during the late-Romantic period.

But as you can hear, some parts are really modern. for example: 1.31.

This is rather impressionistic.

[SebFa32]

Beautiful !

who is the pianist ?

thanks for your answer 

[Bitteulze]

I prefer this version from the one by Jean-Yves Thibaudet. This version is more... "moelleuse" (the french word sounds more approriate than the word "soft"... I don't know why. Not the same connotations I guess...)

[Aufnahmesfreiheit]

@Bitteulze

Fact is that this musique is so deeply french <3

[Bitteulze]

@Aufnahmesfreiheit Obviously.

But I was comparing this specific interpretation with the one from newFranzFerencLiszt's video.

[pixiekorigal]

i'm playing a version of this on saxophone...sounds COMPLETELY different, obv...

[Klaviermusik81]

sounds a little bit like a chopin waltz.

[jimmyg01011]

Anyone know where I can find a free pdf of this!?

[looney1023]

@jimmyg01011

imslp.org

[Ellinidara]

Wonderful painting!...