Yes, the sonata was first performed by Debussy himself and violonist Gérard Poulet in 1917. One amazing thing is that the violonist's son, Gérard Poulet, a well-known violonist too, is still alive in 2023!
This is the very last important piece completed by Debussy. He planned to write six sonatas, but he could compose only three. He suffereed from a cancer in terminal phase, at a time (1918) where the main medical concern was soldiers wounded during harsh battles et the end of WW1. He suffered a lot. Debussy was an antiromantic who hated to show his inner personality in the music, but this suffering induced here a decrease in the usual softness and half-tone character with which he wrote his most audacious music. Here, the harmonies and melodic profiles are more direct and harsher than usual. Just read the three first chords and examine their mutual relationships, which look partly contradictory and drawing the harmony in opposite directions. This is a common feature in Debussy's music, but genearlly the writing is mush softer. Of course, this is a master ermpiece by Dzebussy- and the greatest Debussy. But the music is more "nude" and direct than usual. This feature is in itself quite moving.
Another aspect that makes this piece much more melancholy for me is knowing that he wrote this, not just at the end of his life, but at the end of his career as a prominent composer. His incident with Emily Bardac and his estranged ex wife Lilly tarnished his social image (for those that don't know, Debussy lusted over Emily, and ran away with her. He left Lilly a note saying their marriage was over, and Lilly tried to commit suicide, but the bullet she shot in her chest instead remained lodged there for the rest of her shortened life). With other composers denouncing him and being shunned out of numerous French composing societies left him in a situation where he wasn't just not very well liked, but on top of that, his later pieces fell into obscurity. And this piece to me conveys this anger he feels towards those around him, and towards himself. It feels like a melancholy reflection of his life, parts of it filled with happiness, some with loneliness, and others with anguish.
@@lukemarsden5872 Please study the score carefully, as well as Debussy's biography. You also can have a look at the study that I published on thew ebsite "Festival du Comminges", "Etudes" section about the three sonatas.
the introduction and various parts of this piece remind me of Ravel's later chamber music; it's an even more noticeable influence on Ravel than the similarities in style in a few piano pieces.
I’m playing this as part of my first official university job post-grad (not counting the collab piano I did in undergrad & grad) & ngl this piece has been intimidating me. I haven’t had time to really study the score, the harmonies, the modalities of the different sections, & it’s been hard to understand…but hearing this recording & reading the comments is helping me a lot. Thanks, fellow musicians ♡
In addition, it was his final composition, written while he was suffering a lot from a cancer in its final phase. He died some weeks after having completed the sonata and given it to his editor and friend Durand, who visited him quite often. . This happened during the last very deadly months of WW1, when wounded soldiers needed almost all available medical care.
Stunning playing and a fantastic piece. What a swan song! Exquisitely constructed and beautifully understated as a masterly fencing engagement. Touché!
very imaginative writing in this one. favourite recording: an old naxos one, featured on an album called 'French violin sonatas', where the playing is very fast and music almost sounds oriental. And yet...at a slower pace (like here) it almost sounds bluesy/American in parts....composed 1915; first performance 1917, when US troops landing in France; maybe some deliberate American tones added. never though of that before. which probably means that I am 100% wrong.
Gorgeous music. Babbitt brought me here. The autoplay feature is fascinating! The Babbitt selection was Tableaux. Can one of the experts explain if tonality has been left behind here? Tia.
When I say he just recorded it, I mean the CD literally came out yesterday. Debussy Elgar and Respighi, I think 3 sonatas that were written around the time of the great war if I am not mistaken.
@@titicatfollies6615 Thanks. I have resisted ad blockers because I did not want another program running in the background. Perhaps I should reconsider.
My god... what a beautiful work. However, my dear Shlomo, as I read this work, there is a little more to the nature of those staccatos notes than you seem to want to play and are obviously leaving out. A certain crispness... juxtaposed with the more languid passages would create a heightened sense of presence. And just as obviously, both you and Yefim left out a number of measures. But over all, I would give this recording an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10. However, next time, please... don't be afraid to rall... to your heart's content. In short, relax and play those staccatos intensionally and then slow........... down to a dead stop. CVD
Unbelievable this is the final piece he wrote and performed before he passed away in March 1918.
Yes, the sonata was first performed by Debussy himself and violonist Gérard Poulet in 1917. One amazing thing is that the violonist's son, Gérard Poulet, a well-known violonist too, is still alive in 2023!
TwoSet Violin brought me here. What a beautiful piece, so grateful to be listening to something this gorgeous while the world is so tough right now.
Ishita Mathur oh my god ME TOO-
Ha me too
Catherine Janet Their latest video about matching artworks to classical music pieces. This was one of the pieces they considered.
so happy to see indian twosetters like me
Me too
This is a great gift to violin lovers and Debussy enthusiasts
This is the very last important piece completed by Debussy. He planned to write six sonatas, but he could compose only three. He suffereed from a cancer in terminal phase, at a time (1918) where the main medical concern was soldiers wounded during harsh battles et the end of WW1. He suffered a lot. Debussy was an antiromantic who hated to show his inner personality in the music, but this suffering induced here a decrease in the usual softness and half-tone character with which he wrote his most audacious music. Here, the harmonies and melodic profiles are more direct and harsher than usual. Just read the three first chords and examine their mutual relationships, which look partly contradictory and drawing the harmony in opposite directions. This is a common feature in Debussy's music, but genearlly the writing is mush softer. Of course, this is a master ermpiece by Dzebussy- and the greatest Debussy. But the music is more "nude" and direct than usual. This feature is in itself quite moving.
Another aspect that makes this piece much more melancholy for me is knowing that he wrote this, not just at the end of his life, but at the end of his career as a prominent composer. His incident with Emily Bardac and his estranged ex wife Lilly tarnished his social image (for those that don't know, Debussy lusted over Emily, and ran away with her. He left Lilly a note saying their marriage was over, and Lilly tried to commit suicide, but the bullet she shot in her chest instead remained lodged there for the rest of her shortened life). With other composers denouncing him and being shunned out of numerous French composing societies left him in a situation where he wasn't just not very well liked, but on top of that, his later pieces fell into obscurity. And this piece to me conveys this anger he feels towards those around him, and towards himself. It feels like a melancholy reflection of his life, parts of it filled with happiness, some with loneliness, and others with anguish.
you've over thinking it mate .... it's just lovely music put together from his ideas over 30+ years.
@@lukemarsden5872 Please study the score carefully, as well as Debussy's biography. You also can have a look at the study that I published on thew ebsite "Festival du Comminges", "Etudes" section about the three sonatas.
This is an excellent comment. Thank you!
the introduction and various parts of this piece remind me of Ravel's later chamber music; it's an even more noticeable influence on Ravel than the similarities in style in a few piano pieces.
I’m playing this as part of my first official university job post-grad (not counting the collab piano I did in undergrad & grad) & ngl this piece has been intimidating me. I haven’t had time to really study the score, the harmonies, the modalities of the different sections, & it’s been hard to understand…but hearing this recording & reading the comments is helping me a lot. Thanks, fellow musicians ♡
Good luck!
This is such a beautiful piece I love Debussy
I love depussy
In addition, it was his final composition, written while he was suffering a lot from a cancer in its final phase. He died some weeks after having completed the sonata and given it to his editor and friend Durand, who visited him quite often. . This happened during the last very deadly months of WW1, when wounded soldiers needed almost all available medical care.
The phrases at 1:38 are beautiful beyond words. They make me cry everytime I hear them. I feel a sense of healing grace.
Stunning playing and a fantastic piece. What a swan song! Exquisitely constructed and beautifully understated as a masterly fencing engagement. Touché!
I'm extremely glad that your account is now back up! I love your music and scores.
+Sam Goldberg Thank you! I'm glad you're back at my channel too :)
Heard this live in Carthage, Tunisia. Then as now, an unearned pleasure.
Such a masterpiece.
Sometimes one forgets how affecting some works are until like this; one is reminded. Thank you.
It's hard to imagine that amid the pain and chaos Debussy experienced, he could compose with so much precision and imagination.
Every great composer wrote their last works while seriously ill
9:13 - 9:30. best thing ever. so beauty. such perfect.
IM LOOKING FOR THIS FOR MANY MONTHS!!!!
1:40 , 10:06 - 10:47 and 11:04 ❤❤❤
I love the second movement.
Impressionist music is wonderful.
How could you stand an ad in the middle of this - totally criminal 😞
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@@frentom how? Does it exist?
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Simplemente bello.-
Nice performance ! Thank you so much :)
Happy that you like it!
truly heartwarming harmonies!
Wonderful performance. Thanks for posting.
Still my favorite sonata
Mi favorite song of claude debussy. I love it
Una de las más hermosas melodías musicales con mágica fantasía🦄🍷🍷♨🎠🌈🔥🎯♥♦♠🎼🎵🎶🎻 y sentimiento jamás escuchadas. Genial.
very imaginative writing in this one. favourite recording: an old naxos one, featured on an album called 'French violin sonatas', where the playing is very fast and music almost sounds oriental. And yet...at a slower pace (like here) it almost sounds bluesy/American in parts....composed 1915; first performance 1917, when US troops landing in France; maybe some deliberate American tones added. never though of that before. which probably means that I am 100% wrong.
Why would that make you 100% wrong?
Belíssimo ❤
"Like" on 25 December 22016. A quite Christmas day at home with wife, three cats, and happy memories. This sonata fits in.
I'm happy to hear that Harry, that these videos can add to these special moments!
Harry Andruschak
@Undoubtedly Strange I thought that too!
7:56 no chill
Stunningly beautiful!
Gorgeous music. Babbitt brought me here. The autoplay feature is fascinating! The Babbitt selection was Tableaux.
Can one of the experts explain if tonality has been left behind here? Tia.
Amazing
8:48... ❤️ (Leading into the third movement, haha.)
Hard asf
An unusually raw work from the late Debussy. Reminds me of Bartok. Tantalizingly beautiful.
I had the same thought!!
Is the piano part of this piece difficult? I really want to play this, but idk if i'm good enough. I'm talking about the first movement.
7:25 very shimmery 😇
8:24
Great
10:07 sounds like Ravel
spanish rhapsody
The flowers of Robert Maplethorp
Jaekoff avgn
0:50 woah
melodía en sol eolica y la armonía en lidio, mediante cromática en compás 8, relación tonal (10,11) y sonoridad dórica compás 12 y 13
I have to play this for NYSSMA,
I'm going to die
No you won't, listen to Ferras for another great interpretation, and then decide what your version will sound like. You'll do great!
so how did it go?
a year late but i was wondering how your performance went
@@wangshijian7472 he dead..
@@quinto34 for sure ded. rip.
Ginette et Jean Paul c'est tout, rien d' autres
10:08
*"Subsidised, foreign FUCKING VOWELS"* - Jamie McDonald
4:21, 1:00
0:12 fucking hell that V 9 7 +
Omg yeah😭
Well impressionism often used them bcs of their good sonority espwcially with that voicing
Dang. It'll take me at least 3 years to learn this
Only two years and ten months to go - you'll get there!
1:01
Somebody know the edition of the score in the video?
Pov:a lego movie 300 minute ad video came up
son testament musical
"Once upon a time....."
James Ehnes just recorded this, maybe the only one to come close to what Mintz did with it here.
+scottbos68 Thanks, I'll look his recording up!
When I say he just recorded it, I mean the CD literally came out yesterday. Debussy Elgar and Respighi, I think 3 sonatas that were written around the time of the great war if I am not mistaken.
I would also recommend Ginette Neveu's version.
where can i find the fingerings for this?
naega hosh your own fingers
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Too much rubato in the 2/4 mixed with 3/4 (or 6/8, not sure) sections for my taste
Thumbs down for audio ads in the middle of the music. Shame on TH-cam.
Don't you know about AdBlocker? You can download for free. It will save your life and sanity. It saved mine.
@@titicatfollies6615 Thanks. I have resisted ad blockers because I did not want another program running in the background. Perhaps I should reconsider.
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Did anyone else get a 300 minute ad??
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franeck ciuk brought me here
I love that they include the music so you can see how much the artists disrespect the printed music
How did they disrespect it, Frank?
I mean, Debussy made impressionist music. It's made for artistic liberty.
My god... what a beautiful work. However, my dear Shlomo, as I read this work, there is a little more to the nature of those staccatos notes than you seem to want to play and are obviously leaving out. A certain crispness... juxtaposed with the more languid passages would create a heightened sense of presence. And just as obviously, both you and Yefim left out a number of measures. But over all, I would give this recording an 8 on a scale from 1 to 10. However, next time, please... don't be afraid to rall... to your heart's content. In short, relax and play those staccatos intensionally and then slow........... down to a dead stop. CVD
Wow, what a chattie soul are. If you take your foot out your mouth for a minute, you might actually have a place to sleep. CVD
Charles Davis still don't know what you mean by that...?
Debussy???
Lolo violin parts are simple but piano very complicated and beautiful It can be a concerto for piano and violin!
Bro the piano part is so easy compared to the violon part..
And I say that as a pianist and violonist
@@boubou6355 one of the easiest piano parts to a sonata for sure
the first moviment IS NOT of a master.
What do you mean?
Debussy is the most overrated composer in history.
Debussy is overrated.
Nope
Wtf wrong with ya buddy.
hell no
Nou
Your mom's ass is overrated I feel sorry for your dad
10:08
6:36