Claude Debussy – Pelléas et Mélisande

‘I had long sought to write music for the theatre, but the form in which I wanted to compose it was so unusual that after a number of attempts I had almost given up the idea.’ These words are those of Claude Debussy, in an article he wrote at the request of Georges Ricou, secretary of the Opéra-Comique, in 1902.

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