Claude Debussy
Rêverie
Unlike nearly everything else written for the Parisian salons of the 1880s, this music still has the power to gently lure you into an addictive dream world.
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Debussy’s Rêverie was one of the first pieces he composed that made a, pardon the pun, big impression on the musical world. It’s a charming little meditation, that doesn't contain any of the pyrotechnics that some of his later works did; but there are some mild hints that point to Debussy’s later style in terms of harmony. The dreams the performer experiences while playing the piece get lusher and more expansive throughout the piece – although without ever arriving at a real climax (a fact that contributes to the dreamlike atmosphere) – until the quiet ending where the slumbering person doing the dreaming turns over and goes back to sleep.Background
Debussy didn’t regard Rêverie as an important work – in fact rather the opposite. At the time, Debussy complained in a letter to a friend that “the various lessons I rely on for my daily bread have gone off to the seaside, without a thought for my domestic economy". He composed Rêverie and had it published in the hope of getting some economic relief. When another publishing firm (Fromont) reprinted it much later, he wrote: “I regret very much your decision to publish Rêverie. I wrote it in a hurry years ago, purely for material considerations. It is a work of no consequence and I frankly consider it to be no good!”Forum posts about this piece:
Debussy - Rêverie by livvie
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Debussy's "Reverie" by simyl
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trouble with debussy pedalling by ptyrrell
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Regarding Reverie by Debussy by rach3pianoconcerto
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Video: Debussy, Rêverie - Live Concert by masterraro
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Debussy's Reverie by wzkit
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This piece is composed by Claude Debussy and was published in 1890. Title: Rêverie, in G Minor . The difficulty level if graded by ABRSM would be approximately 8 and it belongs to the Impressionism period.