Claude Debussy :: La boîte à joujoux (The Toybox)


 

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Debussy, Claude
1862-1918
(b St Germain-en-Laye, 22 Aug 1862; d Paris, 25 March 1918). French
La boîte à joujoux (The Toybox) <1913>
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A children's ballet; the beginning orchestrated by Debussy, the rest by André Caplet from Debussy sketches.
Peters "Urtext" ed. R.Zimmermann.

Source of text: Ballet libretto by André Hellé.
1. Prélude: Le sommeil de la boîte (The Toybox
Asleep)
2. Le magasin de jouets (The Toy Store)
3. Le champ de bataille (The Battlefield)
4. La bergerie a vendre (The Sheepfold for Sale)
5. Après fortune faite (After Making a Fortune)
6. Epilogue







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Contents—1. Prélude: Le sommeil de la boîte (The Toybox Asleep); 2. Le magasin de jouets (The Toy Store); 3. Le champ de bataille (The Battlefield); 4. La bergerie à vendre (The Sheepfold for Sale); 5. Après fortune faite (After Making a Fortune); 6. Epilogue