Images is an impressionist orchestral work composed between 1905 and 1912 consisting of three movements entitled I Gigues, II Ibéria and III Rondes de printemps.

Bärenreiter’s scholarly-critical edition is the very ...

Three years after the publication of the first volume, the second volume of Debussy’s Préludes was published in 1913. Here the music reflects the impressions of Stravinsky’s music on the composer. In his new Urtext edition, the musicologist ...

Claude Debussy had difficulties finishing his last major work, the Sonata for Violin and Piano. This can be seen in the many drafts which have been handed down and the fact that the cycle for which it was conceived was left unfinished. The ...

Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie is one of only two concertante works completed, premiered and published during his lifetime. He was commissioned to write it in 1909 for the final examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. Debussy orchestrated ...

Debussy’s Première Rhapsodie is one of only two concertante works completed, premiered and published during his lifetime. He was commissioned to write it in 1909 for the final examination at the Paris Conservatoire in 1910. Debussy orchestrated ...

Following the recent publication of the full score and performance material to Debussy’s “La Mer” (BA 7880), Bärenreiter now presents the study score edition of this “impressionistic” masterpiece.

The new scholarly-critical ...

Debussy links the 12 “Préludes” in his first book not by a tonal scheme, but by means of a chain of associative mottos or titles which appear at the end of each piece and which may give a hint of the overall poetic content.

The ...