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) |