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Offline ravelfan07

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“Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses“
on: November 28, 2023, 10:34:41 PM
Is it just me or Debussy’s “ Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses” sounds similar to Ravel’s Ondine?
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Offline lelle

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Re: “Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses“
Reply #1 on: November 29, 2023, 12:33:55 AM
It certainly sounds Ravellian imo

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Re: “Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses“
Reply #2 on: November 29, 2023, 12:47:27 PM
Neither of these pieces would exist had Debussy and Ravel not studied Liszt. But to me they did very different things with that toolbox, and Ravel perhaps relied on it more heavily than Debussy.

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Re: “Les fées sont d'exquises danseuses“
Reply #3 on: November 29, 2023, 06:03:29 PM
100%, Liszt did a lot in inventing Impressionism which his “ Les jeux d'eaux à la Villa d'Este”
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