Claude Debussy
La plus que lente
Valse
Claude Debussy
La plus que lente
Valse
- Instrumentation Piano
- Composer Claude Debussy
- Editor Hans-Martin Theopold
- Editor Ernst-Günter Heinemann
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- Edition Sheet Music (Urtext)
- Publisher G. Henle Verlag
- Order no. HN1318
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Description:
Slow waltzes enjoyed a special vogue in Parisian salons of the early twentieth century, leading Debussy - with a twinkle in his eye - to produce his piano waltz 'La plus que lente' ('The Slower-than-Slow'). Parisian publisher Durand brought Debussy's piano waltz, issued in July 1910, to a wider public by publishing it that same year as a supplement to Le Figaro, as well as in arrangements (by others) for violin and piano and for piano, 4-hands. Debussy himself produced a version for orchestra, and in 1913 he even - at a rather faster tempo - recorded it on a piano roll for the Welte-Mignon company.
This work, headed 'molto rubato con morbidezza' (with much rubato, morbidly), is now available as a separate Henle Urtext. A preface, extended from those in the anthology volumes HN 1194 and HN 404, will stimulate curiosity about this charming miniature waltz.
This work, headed 'molto rubato con morbidezza' (with much rubato, morbidly), is now available as a separate Henle Urtext. A preface, extended from those in the anthology volumes HN 1194 and HN 404, will stimulate curiosity about this charming miniature waltz.