Debussy, Claude
Musical-theatrical works
Rodrigue et Chimène, (opera in 3 acts, incompleted, Catulle Mendès), 1891-1892
Pelléas et Mélisande, (opera in 5 acts and 12 stages, Maeterlinck), 1893-1902
King Lear, (incidental music, Shakespeare, not completed), 1897-1899, orchestrated by Roger Ducasse in 1926
Chansons de Bilitis, (incidental music), 1900-1901, for the part of the celesta, there is no score (since it was performed by the improvisation of the composer). Pierre Boulez supplementally added the score and the edition was performed in 1954
Le Diable dans le beffroi [A Devil on a Gong], (after Poe, sketches, unfinished), 1902-1911
La chute de la maison Usher [ The fall of the house of Usher], (after E. A. Poe, only fragments exist), 1904-1918
The martyrdom of St. Sébastien (incidental music, after D'Annunzio), 1911
Khamma, (ballet), 2 pf, 1911-1912, orchestrated by A. Caplet
Jeux (Poème dansé, Nizhinsky), orch, 1912
La boite à joujoux, (Ballet for children), 1912-1913
Le palais du silence ou NO-JA-LI, (ballet, one act, Georges de Feure, only in sketch), 1914
Orchestral
Symphony in B minor, 1880
Suite pour violoncelle et orchestre, 1880-1894, manuscript for 'interlude' exists, 1882
Triomphe de Bacchus, (after Banville), 1882
Première suite, 1883
Printemps; symphonic suite with female chorus, 1887
Fantasie for piano and orchestra, 1889
Prélude a l’après-midi d’un faune, (after Mallarmé), 1892
Scènes au crépuscule, (inspired by the text of Henri de Régnier, only sketch exists), 1892-1893
Nocturnes: Nuages, Fetes, Sirènes, 1892
Rhapsodie pour saxophone alto et orchestre, 1901-1911, unfinished, completed by Roger Ducasse (1919)
La mer: 3 symphonic sketches,1903 -1905
Danse sacrée et danse profane, hrp and str orch, 1904
Rondes de printemps, 1905 -1909
Ibéria, 1905-8
Images pour orchestre, 1905-1912
Gigues, 1909-1912
Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre, 1909-1910, orchestration of piano version
Petite pièce pour clarinette et orchestre, 1910, orchestration of piano version
Choral music/Música coral/Musica corale
Daniel, (cantata, Émile Cécile), 3vv, orch, 1881
Hélène, (after Leconte de lisle's book of poems), 1881-1882
Choeur des brises [Choral music for gentle breeze], (only in sketch format), 1882
Salut printemps [Greetings from Spring], (Comte de Ségur), 1882
Invocation, (Alphonse de Lamartine), 1883
Le gladiateur [A gladiator], (Émile Moreau), 3vv, orch, 1883
Eglogue, (derived from 'ancient poems' by Leconte de lisle), 1883
L'enfant prodigue, (Édouard Guinand), 1884, piano with four hands format also exists
Diane au bois [Diane in the Forest], (heroic drama, fragments exist, T.De.Banville), 1884-86
Zuléima, (symphonic hymn, text: Georges Boyer, original poem by Henri Heine), 1885-1886
La demoiselle élue [A blessed Girl], (Dante-Gabriel Rossetti), 1887-1888
Printemps; symphonic suite with female chorus, 1887
Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans, 4vv, 1898, 1908
Ode à la France (incompleted, Louis Laloy), 1917, completed by Marius-François Gaillard after the composer's death.
Vocal music
Beau soir [Beautiful Evening], (Paul Bourget), 1878-1879
Fleur des blés [Wheat Flowers], (André Girod), 1878-1879
Ballades à la lune, (A. Musset), 1879
Rêverie, (Théo. de Banville), 1880
Nuits d'étoiles [Nights with Shining Stars], (Théo. de Banville), 1880
Caprice, (Théo. de Banville?), 1880
Rondel Chinois [Chinese Rondel], (text: unknown), 1880
Les roses, (Théo. de Banville), 1881
Séguidille, (Théophile Gautier), 1881
Tragédie, (Léon Valade derived from the poemes by Heinrich Hein), 1881
Pierrot, (Théo. de Banville), 1881
Souhait [Wish], (Théo. de Banville), 1881
Zéphyr, (Théo. de Banville), 1881
Aimos-nous et dormons [Let's Sleep together with Love], (Théo. de Banville), 1881
Jane, (Leconte de Lisle), 1881
Fantoches: scaramouche et pulcinella [Puppets], (Paul Verlaine), 1881
Sérénade, (Paul Verlaine), 1882
Pantomime, (Paul Verlaine), 1882
La fille aux cheveux de lin [A Girl with Flaxen Hair], (Leconte de Lisle), 1882
Flots, palmes, sables [Waves, Palms, Sands], (Armand Renaud), 1882
Les lilas, (T. de Banville),1882
Rondeau, (A. Musset), 1882
Mandoline, (P. Verlaine),1882/1883
Coquetterie posthume [Voluptuousness after the Death], (Théophile Gautier's poem 'Émaux et camées'),1883
Musique, (Paul Bourget),1883
Paysage sentimental, (Paul Bourget), 1883
L'archet [Archery], (Charles Cros, incomplete), 1883
Chansns triste, (Maurice Buchor 'Les poèmes de l'amour et de la mer'), 1883
Fleur des eaux [Water Flowers], (Maurice Buchor 'Les poèmes de l'amour et de la mer'), 1883
Voici que le printemps [Spring has Come], (Paul Bourget), 1883
Regret, (Paul Bourget), 1884
La romance d'Ariel, (Paul Bourget), 1884
Apparition, (Stéphane Mallarmé), 1884
Barcarolle, (Édouard Guinand 'Au courant de la vie'), 1885
Ariettes
oubliées [Forgotten Arietta], (Paul Verlaine), 1886-1888, originally
entitled 'Ariettes, paysages Belges et aquarelles' but he changed the
title into Ariettes in 1903
1) C'est l'extase [this is a weary extasy]
2) Il pleure dans mon coeur [tears are rolling down in my heart]
3) L'ombre des arbres [shadows of the woods]
4) Chevaux de bois [a wooden horse]
5) Green
6) Spleen [sigh]
Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, (C. Baudelaire), 1887-1889, for
the 3'rd part, orchestral edition also exists.
1) Le balcon [a balcony]
2) Harmonie du soir [evening hamony]
3) Le jet d'eau [a fontain]
4) Recueillement [introspection]
5) La mort des amants [the death of two lovers]
Axel, (Villiers de L'isle-Adam, fragment exists), 1888
Les angélus [The Evening Eyes], (Grégoire Le Roy), 1890
La belle au bois dormant [Beauty in the Sleeping Forest], (Vincent Hyspa), 1890
Deux romances [Two Romances], (Paul Verlaine), 1891
1) Romance: l'âme évaporée est souffrante...
2) Les cloches [the bells]
Dans le jardin [In the Garden], (Paul Gravollet), 1891
Trois
mélodies, (?), 1891
1) La mer est plus belle que les cathédrales [the sea becomes ever beautiful]
2) Le son du cor s'afflige vers les bois [to the forest, the horn sounds
sorrowful]
3) L'echelonnement des haies moutonne à l'infini [lines of waves]
Fêtes
galantes book I [Showy Banquets], (Paul Verlaine), 1891
1) En sourdine [secretly]
2) Fantoches [puppets]
3) Clair de lune [moonlight]
Proses
lyriques [Lyric Proses], (Claude Debussy), 1892-1893
1) De rêve [dream]
2) De grève [sandy beach]
3) Des fleurs [flowers]
4) De soir [evening]
La saulaie [Willow Forest], (Original text: T.G. Rossetti (English), French translation by Pierre Louÿs), 1896-1900
Trois
chansons de Bilitis (Pierre Louÿs 1'st chapter of 'Chansons de Bilitis'),
1897-1898
1) La flûte de pan
2) La chevelure [hair]
3) Le tombeau de Naïades [A tomb of Naiades]
Berceuse pour 'la tragèdie de la mort' [Lullaby for 'Tragidy of the Death'], (René Peter with the introduction by Pierre Louÿs), 1899
Nuit blanches [White Nights], (incomplete, Claude Debussy), 1899-1902
Fêtes
galantes book II [Showy Banquets], (P. Verlaine), 1904
1) Les ingénus [innocent people]
2) La faune
3) Colloque sentimental [sentimental conversation]
Trois chansons de France, (C. D'Orléan (1 and 3), CTristan Lhermite(2)),
1904
1) Rondel I : le temps laissié son manteau... [winter left its cloak there...]
2) La grotte [a cave]
3) Rondel II : pour ce que plaisance est morte... [now delightful you
have passed away]
Le
promenoir des deux amants [Promnade for the couple], (Triatan Lhermite),
1904/1910
1) Auprès de cette grotte sombre [by this dark cave]
2) Crois mon conseil, chère clomène [please believe my invitation]
3) Je tremble en voyant ton visage [I am trembling]
Trois
ballades François Villon, 1910
1) Ballade de Villon à s'amye [ballade by Villon for the lovers]
2) Ballade de Villon feit à la requeste de sa mère pour prier Nostre Dame
[ballade for dedicating St. Maria by the request of mother]
3) Ballade des femmes de Paris [ballade for Parisian girls]
Trois
poèmes Stèphane Mallarmé, 1913
1) Soupir [sigh]
2) Placet futile [futile wish]
3) Eventail [folding fan]
Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison [Christmas for the Homeless Children] (Debussy), 1915
Chamber music
Trio for piano, violin and cello, 1879, lost
Symphonie, 1880, 4 hands
Divertissement, 1882, 4 hands
Le triomphe de Bacchus, 1882, 4 hands
Nocturne et Scherzo, for violoncello and piano, 1882, lost
Marche écossaise sur un thème populaire, 1891, 4 hands
String quartet in G, 1893
Lindaraja, 1901, 2 pianos
Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, 1909-1910
Petite pièce for clarinet and piano, 1910
Six epigraphes antiques [arr. pf 4 hands], 1914, orchestrated by Ernest Ansermet, 1932
En blanc et noir (3 pieces), 1915, 2 pianos
Sonata for cello and piano, 1915
Sonata for flute, viola and harp, 1915
Sonata for violin and piano, 1916-1917
Piano and solo instrumental
Danse bohémienne, 1880
Prèmiere suite d'orchestre, 1883, reduced orchestral version
Petite suite, 1888-1889, orchestrated by Henri Busser, 1907
Deux Arabesques, 1888-1891
Tarantelle styrienne, 1890, republished as "Danse", 1903, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel, 1923
Ballade slave, 1890, republished as "Ballade", 1903
Réverie, 1890
Valse romantique, 1890
Suite bergamasque, 1890-1905
Mazurka, 1890
Nocturne, 1892
Images (3 pieces), 1894
Suite: Pour le piano, 1894
D'un cahier d'esquisses (Esquisse), 1903
Estampes, 1903
Piece pour piano, (based on sketch from Le diable dans le beffroil), 1903
L'isle joyeuse, 1904
Masques, 1904
Images I, 1904-1905
Sérénade a la poupée, 1906, incorporated in Children's Corner
Children's Corner, 1906-1908, orchestrated by André Caplet, 1910
Images II, 1907
Hommage a Haydyn, 1909
Le petit negre [The Little Nigar], 1909
Préludes Book I, 1909-1910
La plus que lente, 1910, orchestrated by Debussy, 1910
Préludes Book II, 1910-1912
Syrynx, fl, 1912
Berceuse heroique, 1914, orchestrated by Debussy, 1914
Elégie, 1915
Etudes, 1915
Piece pour le Vêtement du blessé (Page d'album), 1915
Morceau de concours,
Principal publishers
Durand
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