La lettre de Geneviève
| Song Title | La lettre de Geneviève (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Claude Debussy |
| Author(s): | Maurice Maeterlinck |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Afraid; Age; Arkel; Asking; Brothers; Children; Daughters; Families; Far; Fathers; Fear; Finding; Forests; Forgiveness; Forgiving; Hope; Kindness; Knowing; Lamps; Letters; Lost; Loving; Marriage; Marrying; Meeting; Messages; Mothers; Mystery; Pelléas; Profound; Questioning; Reading; Recitative; Reconciliation; Returning; Sailing; Seas; Ships; Sobbing; Springs; Tears; Towers; Uncertainty; Weeping; Welcoming; Writing |
| First Line | Voici ce qu'il écrit à son frère Pélléas: (Search) |
| Average Duration | 3:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 1893 - 1902 (Search) |
| Larger Work | Pelléas et Mélisande (Search) |
| Musical Form | Through-composed (Search) |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Symbolism (Search) |
| Original Language | French (Search) |
| Score Source | https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/d/d6/IMSLP33280-PMLP09094-Debussy-L088vsFR.pdf#page=28 |
| Audio Source | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4PKrhyZD7s |
| Catalog Designation | L 88 (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Contralto |
| Range: | A3 - C5 (Search) |
| Premiered By | Jeanne Gerville-Réache (Search) |
| Notes | Sung by Geneviève in Act I, scene ii (Search) |
| Orchestra and voice? | Yes (Search) |
| Contributor | GTM (Search) |