Thursday, 5/17/12

by musicclipoftheday

old stuff

Claude Debussy, Children’s Corner, 1908
Alfred Cortot (piano), Marcel L’Herbier (director), 1936

More Cortot? Here. And here.

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Children’s Corner was written for Debussy’s three-year-old daughter, Claude-Emma (nicknamed ‘Chou-Chou’ [AKA Chouchou]) and bears the following dedication: ‘to my dear Chou-Chou, with the tender apologies of her father for what is to follow.’

—All Music Guide to Classical Music (2005)

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Claude & Chouchou
picnicking in a pine forest near Archachon, 1915