ExclusiveDebussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (ensemble arr.)

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (ensemble arr.). This beautiful piece was played by Natalia Ensemble. It has Creative Commons license (CC BY 3.0 DEED Attribution 3.0 Unported) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, known in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, is a symphonic poem-for-orchestra by Claude Debussy, lasting approximately 10 minutes. It was composed in 1894 and premiered in Paris on 22 December 1894, conducted by Gustave Doret. The solo flute was played by Georges Barrère.

Stéphane Mallarmé's poem L'après-midi d'un faune inspired the composition. It is one of Debussy's most famous works and is considered a turning point in the history of Western art music and a masterpiece of Impressionist composition. Pierre Boulez considered the score to be the beginning of modern music, noting that "the faun's flute breathed new life into the art of music".

The poem can be found here: https://dalspace.library.dal.ca/bitstream/handle/10222/60564/dalrev_vol64_iss1_pp46_49.pdf?sequence=3

The video was captured by Simone Schlegel and edited by Wenjing Ma.






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