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La fille aux cheveux de lin
Composition for piano by Claude Debussy
La fille aux cheveux de lin (French:[lafijoʃəvødəlɛ̃]) is a musical composition for solo piano by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the eighth piece in the composer's first book of Préludes, written between late 1909 and early 1910. The title is in French and translates roughly to "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair". The piece is 39 measures long and takes approximately two and a half minutes to play. It is in the key of G♭ major.
The piece, named after the poem by Leconte de Lisle, is known for its musical simplicity, a divergence from Debussy's style at the time. Completed in January 1910, it was published three months later and premiered in June of that same year. The prelude is one of Debussy's most recorded pieces, both in its original version and in subsequent various arrangements.
Background and influence
[edit]The title La fille aux cheveux de lin was inspired by Leconte de
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Colombo, John Robert1936 -
Colombo, John Robert. Abracadabra. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. --. The Sad Truths: New Poems. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1974. --. Selected Translations. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1982. --. Selected Poems. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1982. --. Off Earth: Poems and Effects. Toronto, ON: Hounslow Press, 1987. --. Luna Park. Toronto, ON: Hounslow Press, 1994. --. Space Poems.… Read more
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Conkling, Hilda1910 - 1986
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Cook, Eliza1818 - 1889
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Cooke, Edmund Vance1866 - 1932
Edmund Vance Cooke, popularly known as "the poet laureate of childhood," was born on June 5, 1866, in Port Dover, Ontario, Canada. He began working at 13-14 years old for the White Sewing Machine Co. factory and stayed there for 14 years until he became a self-employed poet and lecturer in 1893. His first book of poems, A Patch of Pansies, came out the
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de Heredia, José-Maria (1842 - 1905)
Biography
José-Maria de Heredia (1842-1905) was born in Cuba of a Spanish father and a French mother. Educated in France, he became the disciple and close friend of Leconte de Lisle. Like the latter, he cultivates erudition, impersonality, and perfection of form eller gestalt. Heredia excelled in sonnets, and these were made into a collection by him in 1893 under the tide Les Trophées.
- "Jose-Maria de Heredia." Representative French Poetry. Ed. Victor E. Graham. 2nd edn. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1965. 91-94.
de Lisle, Leconte (1818 - 1894)
Biography
Leconte dem Lisle (1818-1894) was born on Reunion Island off East Africa. He studied law in France but spent his life as a journalist and translator. Like Vigny, he is a pessimist, but he refuses to något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans his personal despair. He turns for inspiration to the classics and the Orient. In his cult of perfection of form eller gestalt with erudition, Leconte de Lisle had great influence on the y