Claude Debussy - Piano Trio in G major (1879)

 

 

Claude Debussy

 

( 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Piano Trio in G major (1879)

 

 

The Piano Trio in G major L. 3, was written by an 18-year-old Claude Debussy in 1880 in Fiesole, Italy, where he resided at Nadezhda von Meck. Most of the autograph of the work was thought to

 

be lost until 1982, when it was discovered from the legacy of Maurice Dumesnil, a pupil of Debussy's. The first edition was published in 1986.

 

 

Movements

The work is in four movements:

1. Andantino con moto allegro
2. Scherzo: Moderato con allegro
3. Andante espressivo
4. Finale: Appassionato

A typical performance lasts 20-25 minutes.

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Critical response

In 1984, the music critic Harold Schonberg wrote of the trio that "The Debussy piece is juvenilia.

You can have a lot of fun putting it on the turntable and asking your learned friends who the composer is. Nothing in the music suggests Debussy. It is sweet, sentimental, and sugared; it verges on

the salon."^[2]

 

Reviewer Charlotte Gardner for the BBC wrote in 2012 that "Debussy's teenage Piano Trio doesn't often get to see the light of day, mostly because it reveals him very much still in feet-finding mode. Still, it's an enjoyable listen, and it’s interesting to compare its pizzicato second movement with that of the Quartet, and the Brodskys and Jean-Efflam Bavouzet are evidently having some fun. They're an effortless partnership, making make much of the work's smoochy, romantic leanings, the high beauty of many of its passages, and its light, clear textures."^[3]