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Debussy, Claude Achille : Hommage à Joseph Haydn

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Music ID : 104
Composition Year:1909 
Publication Year:1910
First Publisher:Durand
Instrumentation:Piano Solo 
Genre:character pieces
Total Playing Time:2 min 00 sec
Copyright:Public Domain

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Author : Wada, Mayuko

Last Updated: June 1, 2007
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Note: This article is automatically translated from the original Japanese text. The author of the original work did not supervise this translation.

The year 1909 marked the centenary of Haydn's death, and the French music magazine SIM featured a special commemorative issue. The work commissioned for this occasion was Hommage à Haydn.

In this piece, the technique of musical cryptogram (a technique of incorporating letters of the alphabet into music by converting them into musical notes) is employed. It is a leisurely waltz consisting of four sections, in each of which the basic melodic series is varied.

Writer: Wada, Mayuko

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