“Do not take up music unless you
would rather die than not do so.”
AUTHOR: Nadia Boulanger
MEANING OF THE QUOTE:
“A true musician must be willing to
give up everything for his art"
COMPOSER
DEBUSSY
“A true musician must be willing to
give up everything for his art"
COMPOSER
DEBUSSY
L 'Isle Joyeuse
Performed by Walter Gieseking
(impressionistic art)
l'Isle Joyeuse (the Joyfull Island) is
Debussy's longest piano piece. It
contains a number of sequences with
changing atmospheres, evoking the natural
elements (the sun, the sea, the wind...), in a
typically impressionistic approach. The piece
was partly inspired by Watteau’s painting
L’Embarquement de Cythère,
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| Antoine Watteau: L'Embarquement pour Cythere |
in which a happy group of revellers depart for/
from the mythical island of Cythera in the
Mediterranean, birthplace of Venus, the
goddess of love. The island (which uses the
English spelling ‘isle’implicated in the title)
also is a reference to the Channel Island of
Jersey where in 1904 Debussy escaped to its
"joyfull" atmosphere with Emma Bardac, who
became his second wife.
