Free Piano Sheet Music - Clair De Lune - Debussy. Clair De Lune (pdf) Clair De Lune - 1 Page Version (pdf). Mar 31, 2009 Debussy's Clair de Lune, performed by Caela Harrison. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. 'Clair de Lune' is actually the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 'Suite Bergamasque.' Although Debussy wrote the piece in 1890 at the age of 25, it was not published until 1905. By that time it had been partially re-written as well as re-titled. The original name of this piece was 'Promenade Sentimentale.' Addeddate 2021-01-31 10:59:59 Identifier guy-de-maupassant-clair-de-lune Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocrdetectedlang fr Ocrdetectedlangconf 1.0000 Ocrdetectedscript. Clair de lune, a 1921 play by Blanche Oelrichs, filmed in 1932 Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a play by Terrence McNally, first performed in 1987 Claire de Lune, a biographical novel by Pierre La Mure, published in 1962.
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The Suite bergamasque is one of the most famous piano suites by Claude Debussy. It was likely named after Paul Verlaine's poem “Clair de lune”, which possibly alludes to a bergamask, a clumsy rustic dance. Debussy wrote the suite in 1888 at age 26, but the work was not published until 1903, and the extent to which he revised it during the interval is unclear. Certainly the published work is a great stylistic advance over the few short piano works which preceded it, but whether that advance is due to an early maturity or to much later alteration will perhaps always elude historians.
The third movement of Suite bergamasque is its most famous. Titled “Clair de lune” (“Moonlight”), it was written with Paul Verlaine's poem of the same name in mind. It is perhaps the most famous piece Debussy ever penned, and has a way of drawing the listener into its magical atmosphere. It is mostly played slowly, pianissimo (very softly), and in the key of D-flat major (with five flats, beginners beware!).
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Clair de Lune is French for 'moonlight'. It may refer to:
Literature[edit]
- 'Clair de Lune' (poem), a poem by Paul Verlaine, published 1869
- Clair de Lune, an 1884 short story collection by Guy de Maupassant
- Clair de lune, a 1921 play by Blanche Oelrichs, filmed in 1932
- Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a play by Terrence McNally, first performed in 1987
- Claire de Lune, a biographical novel by Pierre La Mure, published in 1962
- 'Claire de Lune', a short story by Steven Millhauser from the short story collection The Knife Thrower and Other Stories, published in 1998
Music[edit]
- Clair De Lune (band), an American rock band
Classical music[edit]
- 'Clair de lune' (Debussy), third movement of Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy, inspired by the Paul Verlaine poem
- 'Clair de lune' (Fauré), from Op. 46 'Two Songs' (1887) by Gabriel Fauré
- Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven), known as 'Au Clair de lune' in French
Contemporary popular music[edit]
- 'Clair de Lune' (Flight Facilities song), a song by Flight Facilities
- 'Clair de Lune' by Little Green Cars
- 'Clair de Lune' by Kamasi Washington from The Epic
Other uses[edit]
- Claire de Lune (typeface), a typeface by Fonderie Deberny & Peignot
See also[edit]
- 'Au clair de la lune', a French folk song
- Au clair de la lune (film), a 1983 Canadian film directed by André Forcier