[Debussy, Claude. (1862–1918)] Dufy, Raoul. (1880–1953) & Dukas, Paul. (1865–1935) & Bartók, Béla. (1881–1945) & Ravel, Maurice. (1875–1937) & Falla, Manuel de. (1876–1946) & Stravinsky, Igor. (1882–1971) & Satie, Erik. (1866–1925)
Tombeau de Claude Debussy. Dix Compositions inédites [...] dédiés à la mémoire de Debussy.
Paris: [La Revue Musicale]. 1920. Collection of ten pieces composed by Bartók, de Falla, Ravel, Satie, Stravinsky and others, dedicated to the memory of Claude Debussy and published as a special supplement to the Revue musicale in 1920. The cover with an original lithograph by Raoul Dufy. 32 pp. Some light toning and edge wear; overall fine. 7.25 x 10 inches (18.5 x 25 cm.)The Tombeau de Claude Debussy is a collective work, commissioned by Henri Prunières, director of the Revue musicale, in 1920 and performed the following year in concerts of the Société musicale indépendante. It is composed of ten pieces: six pieces for piano solo (by Paul Dukas, Albert Roussel, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Eugène Goossens, Béla Bartók and Florent Schmitt), a piece for guitar by Manuel de Falla, a violin and cello piece by Maurice Ravel, a mélodie by Erik Satie and a piano reduction from the Symphonies of Wind Instruments by Igor Stravinsky.
The genre of tombeau, a musical "tombstone" or memorial to a departed composer, was popularized by French Baroque composers such as Marais, Sainte-Colombe and Couperin, before it reappeared in the twentieth century in works such as Ravel's Le Tombeau de Couperin (1919) and the present collection. (15400)
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