Claude Debussy: Arabesque No.1 (Piano) in E Major L66 - Andante con moto

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Hey guys! Today I am playing the very famous Arabesque No. 1 by Claude Debussy. It‘s such elegant and beautiful music and the perfect for piece piano students to dive into French impressionist music. Also a good opportunity to introduce 2 against 3 polyrhythms. Thanks for watching this video, I hope you enjoy it!

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The Two Arabesques (Deux arabesques), L. 66, is a pair of arabesques composed for piano by Claude Debussy when he was still in his twenties, between the years 1888 and 1891.
Although quite an early work, the arabesques contain hints of Debussy's developing musical style. The suite is one of the very early impressionistic pieces of music, following the French visual art form. Debussy seems to wander through modes and keys, and achieves evocative scenes throughout both pieces. His view of a musical arabesque was a line curved in accordance with nature, and with his music he mirrored the celebrations of shapes in nature made by the Art Nouveau artists of the time. Of the arabesque in baroque music, he wrote:
“That was the age of the ‘wonderful arabesque' when music was subject to the laws of beauty inscribed in the movements of Nature herself.”

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