Claude Debussy piano works

[a1]

Here's a question. Why, in the sheet music section of this website, do nearly all of debussy's preludes show either level's 8 or 8+ when clearly not all of them are that difficult (La Fille aux Cheveaux de Lin, for example)?

In my personal opinion,I think that all of them classify as level 8,8+ because you need at less level 8 or 8+ techniques to play the music in the correct ways.As what you had mentioned La Fille aux Cheveaux de Lin seem easy but for me it is a master-level piece.You must at least 18 to know what is the feeling of love and express it with the music too.The music is that kind of short which mean you need to express all your feeling in a blink of an eye.....the express is sure tough will pp as the base of it and the climax should only reach f nowadays.(it not no one can understand you expression) 

[a1]

- La Fille aux cheveux de lin

- Arabesque No.1

- Rêverie

- Clair De Lune

- Valse Romantique*

- Children's Corner: Golliwogg's Cakewalk

great choice........I think we are in the same channel !?

[pianisten1989]

L'isle joyeux.. I'm playing it atm

[j.s. bach the 534th]

Arabesque No. 1 definitely the best.

[communist]

why is the Suite Bergmasque not on there?

[mad_max2024]

why is the Suite Bergmasque not on there?

Suite Bergamasque = Prelude + Menuet + Claire de Lune + Passepied

[a1]

You don't hear the nocturnes as much, perhaps.  Sometimes, it's good not to just think of what you will play for one composer - but how you plan to put a program together and how it will fit.  I love Ravel's Jeux d'eau.  I could see it paired with Debussy's 'Reflections on the water.'  One you have fountains, and the other still water.  I think.  I haven't studied either piece - but I like to listen to them.

The second half of the program could be all nocturnes.  Chopin, Debussy, Faure.  Faure wrote some beautiful ones!  The fourth nocturne is my favorite partly because I've played it and have the fingering.  The fingering to these things is everything - or most of the ease of playing.

OIC !!!

[vsrinivasa]

I really like Cloches a travers les feuilles. I can play it reasonably well and have been playing it a lot lately. In order, my favourite Debussy pieces (today) are:

Cloches a travers les feuilles
Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir
Pagodes
Sarabande from Pour le Piano
Reflets dans l'Eau
Prelude from Suite Bergamasque
Le vent dans la plaine
Nocturne in D-flat (the only one for solo piano)