- La fille aux cheveux de lin, a piano miniature, comes from Debussy’s Préludes, Book I, published in Paris by Durand in 1910.1
- This little piece was inspired by a poem of the same name by Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle. Debussy also set this poem as a song for voice and piano in 1881.2
- Full poem and translation
- de Lisle’s poem was, in turn, based on a poem by Robert Burns, “Lassie wi’ the lint-white locks” (1794)3
Sources
- Catherine Kautsky, Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of La belle époque (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), 149.
- François Lesure and Roy Howat, “Debussy, (Achille-)Claude,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed February 23, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000007353
- Catherine Kautsky, Debussy’s Paris: Piano Portraits of La belle époque (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), 149.
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