debussy's piano symphony but the score video might split your brain in half

Описание: Debussy was eighteen years old when he composed his sole symphony, which has survived only in a single movement reduced for piano four-hands. Apparently, however, it was intended to have three further movements entitled Andante. Air de Ballet. Final. In the first weeks of 1881 Debussy, then a young student at the Paris Conservatoire, sent his manuscript to Tchaikovsky’s wealthy patroness Nadezhda von Meck, at whose home he had spent the previous summer as a piano teacher and accompanist to her children. She acknowledged its receipt on 20 February, adding that she was very taken by this “charming symphony”, which she would be pleased to hear herself in a rendition by the composer. There can be little doubt that this performance came to pass in the following two summer months which he spent in Russia. Debussy probably lost sight entirely of this very early work, especially once he had proclaimed the “superfluity of the symphony” in his capacity as music critic (Monsieur Croche). It is therefore all the more surprising that on 23 May 1912 he should strangely evince his “deep admiration” in the visitor’s album of Madame Colonne by entering two bars of a “forever unfinished first symphony”. Perhaps they represented the opening of one of the missing movements of 1881. The piece was published for the first time in 1933 by N. Gilaiev, Moscow, after the mathematician K. S. Bougouchevsky had discovered it by accident in1925 in a collection of arrangements for piano four hands.

(G. Henle Verlag)

Please take note that the audio AND sheet music ARE NOT mine. Change the quality to a minimum of 480p if the video is blurry.

Original audio: Adrienne Soós and Ivo Haag (Naxos, 2011) (   • Видео  )
Original sheet music: imslp.org/wiki/Symphony_in_B_minor_(Debussy%2C_Claude) (Muzgiz, 1933)