Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

We're taking a brief detour from Mahler 2 today to discuss Debussy's legendary Afternoon of a Faun, a piece written in the same year as Mahler's 2nd symphony. It's easy to forget how revolutionary this piece was at the time, but composers from...
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We're taking a brief detour from Mahler 2 today to discuss
Debussy's legendary Afternoon of a Faun, a piece written in the
same year as Mahler's 2nd symphony. It's easy to forget how
revolutionary this piece was at the time, but composers from
Stravinsky to Schoenberg to Boulez to Messiaen were galvanized by
this 10 minute masterpiece which Boulez said "breathed new life
into the art of music." This is a piece that changed musical
history for good, and today we'll find out exactly why it had
such an impact.

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