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Petite Suite (arr Brakkee)
Claude Debussy (arr. Stefaan Brakkee)
Contents
General Info
Year: 1886-1889 / 1999?
Duration: c. 15:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Piano four-hands
Publisher: Edition Compusic (Netherlands)
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $36.00
Movements
1. En Bateau - 4:00
2. Cortege - 3:25
3. Menuet - 3:40
4. Ballet - 3:15
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe I-II
Bassoon I-II
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The Petite Suite, L 65, is a suite for piano four hands by Claude Debussy. It has been transcribed many times, most notably in an orchestral version by Debussy's colleague Henri Büsser.
The suite, which was composed from 1886 to 1889, was first performed on 2 February 1889 by Debussy and pianist–publisher Jacques Durand at a salon in Paris. It may have been written due to a request (possibly from Durand) for a piece that would be accessible to skilled amateurs, as its simplicity is in stark contrast with the modernist works that Debussy was writing at the time.
The work, which lasts about 13 minutes in performance, has four movements. The first two movements, En Batteau and Cortege, are settings of poems from the volume Fêtes galantes by Paul Verlaine (1844–1896).
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Commercial Discography
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
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- Michigan State University (East Lansing) Wind Symphony (Hunter Kopczynski, conductor) - 30 September 2020
- University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) Wind Ensemble (Cory Near, conductor) – 3 December 2017
- Seattle (Wash.) Pacific University Vivace Chamber Players – 15 August 2015
Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Danse (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa)
- Golliwog's Cakewalk (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1908)
All Wind Works
- Afternoon of a Faun, The (arr. Walters) (1894/1950/1999?)
- Beau Soir (arr. Warner)(1880/1971)
- Children’s Corner Suite (arr. Winterbottom) (1908)
- Clair de lune (arr. de Meij) (1890/1905/2017)
- Clair de Lune (arr. Wallace) (1890/1905/1995)
- Danse (arr. Boyd) (1890/1983)
- Danse (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kurokawa)
- Danses Sacrée et Profane (arr. Odom) (1904/2019)
- Danses Sacrée et Profane (tr. J. Lloyd) (1904)
- Debussy: Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Akey) (1910/1995)
- The Engulfed Cathedral (tr. Longfield) (1910/1987)
- The Engulfed Cathedral (arr. Miller) (1910/1986)
- The Engulfed Cathedral (tr. Patterson) (1910/1993)
- The Engulfed Cathedral. See also: La Cathédrale Engloutie
- Fêtes (arr. Schaefer) (1959)
- Fêtes from "Three Nocturnes" (tr. Tatebe)
- Four Debussy Songs (trans. Anderson) (2018)
- Golliwog's Cakewalk (arr. Curnow) (1908/1985)
- Golliwog's Cakewalk (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Kano) (1908)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (tr. Brand) (1910)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (tr. Bernotas) (1910)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Moss) (1910/2007)
- The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (arr. Sparke) (1910/2007)
- Hommage à Rameau (arr. Hunsberger) (1905/2009)
- La Cathédrale Engloutie (arr. Mortimer) (1910/2016)
- La Cathédrale Engloutie. See also: The Engulfed Cathedral
- La Mer (trans. Odom) (1905/)
- L’isle joyeuse (arr. Mashima) (1904/2005)
- L'isle joyeuse (arr. Volans) (1904/1995)
- Marche Écossaise (tr. Schaeffer) (1891/1908/1964)
- Marche Écossaise (tr. Scatterday) (1891/1908)
- 'Menuet' from Suite Bergamasque (arr. Southard) (1890/2012)
- Minstrels (tr. Scarbrough) (1910/2016)
- Pagodes from "Estampes" (arr. Grainger) (1996)
- Petite Suite (arr. Brakkee) (1889/1999?)
- Petite Suite (tr. Winterbottom) (1889)
- Petite Suite (arr. Kimura) (1889/1998)
- Premiere Arabesque (1891)
- Première Rhapsody (tr. Baars) (1910/12016)
- Première Rhapsody (arr. Walker; ed. Pappas) (1910/1963/2004)
- Rêverie (tr. Thompson) (1890/2011)
- Sarabande (tr. Bennefield) (1894/1901/2020)
- Sarabande (tr. Erickson) (1894/1967)
- Suite Bergamasque Mvt 2 Menuet (arr. Thompson)
- Three Debussy Pieces (arr. Singletary)
Resources
- Debussy, C.; Brakkee, S. [1999?]. Petite Suite [score]. Ed. Compusic: Amsterdam, Neth.
- Petite Suite (Debussy), Wikipedia. Accessed 30 September 2020
