![]() Auden) at Columbia University in New York City ġ945 - Barber: "I Hear an Army," "Monks and Raisins," "Nocturne,""Sure On This Shining Night," during a CBS radio broadcast, with mezzo Jennie Tourel and the CBS Symphony, composer conducting ġ946 - Douglas Moore: Symphony in A, in Paris ġ977 - George Crumb: oratorio "Star Child," by the New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conducting ġ982 - Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. Music Played in Today's ProgramĬlaude Debussy (1862–1918) Violin Sonata Midori, violin Robert McDonald, piano Sony 89699 On This Day Birthsġ819 - Polish composer Stanislaw Moniuszko, in Ubiel, province of Minsk, Russia ġ869 - German composer and conductor Hans Pfitzner, in Moscow, of German parents (Julian date: April 23) ġ726 - Handel: opera "Alessandro," in London at King's Theater in the Haymarket, with the Italian soprano Faustina Bordini marking her London debut in a work by Handel (Gregorian date: May 16) ġ917 - Debussy: Violin Sonata, in Paris, by violinist Gaston Poulet with the composer at the piano (his last public appearance) ġ926 - Copland: Two Pieces ("Nocturne" and "Ukelele Serenade"), in Paris by violinist Samuel Dushkin with the composer at the piano ġ930 - Milhaud: opera "Christophe Colomb" (Christopher Columbus),at the Berlin State Opera ġ941 - Britten: "Paul Bunyan" (text by W.H. On May 5, 1917, Debussy made his last public appearance in Paris at the Salle Gaveay, accompanying violinist Gaston Poulet in the premiere of his final work - a Sonata for Violin and Piano. He wrote: “If I am doomed to vanish soon, I desire at least to have done my duty.” ![]() Rallying somewhat by the by the summer of 1916, Debussy vowed to keep on working. In December of that year, the side-effects of radium treatments and morphine injections for his cancer brought Debussy’s Sonata project to a grinding halt. Working, as he put it, “like a madman,” he finished a Cello Sonata and a Trio Sonata for Flute, Viola, and Harp by the fall of 1915. Debussy planned to write SIX chamber sonatas but completed only three. He knew his remaining time was precious, so decided to write small chamber works rather than big orchestral pieces. “I want to work,” he wrote, “not so much for myself, but to give proof, however small it may be, that not even 30 million Boches can destroy French thought.” But by the spring of 1915, Debussy decided to keep on composing. His private battle with cancer on top of his nation’s battle with Germany plunged him into depression. ![]() The French composer Claude Debussy was too sick to be called up for service when World War I broke out in 1914. ![]()
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