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DEBUSSY – Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum, from Childrens Corner – SOLO CELLO [only available from “Segno dell’Aquila”]

Other Identification:
Children’s Corner is a 6-movement suite for solo piano by Claude Debussy. It was published by Durand in 1908, and was given its world première in Paris by Harold Bauer on 18 December that year. In 1911, an orchestration of the work by Debussy’s friend André Caplet received its première and was subsequently published.
It is dedicated to Debussy’s daughter, Claude-Emma (known as “Chou-Chou”), who was three years old at the time. However, the pieces are not intended to be played by children; rather they are meant to be evocative of childhood and some of the toys in Claude-Emma’s toy collection.

Movements or sections:
The title of the first piece alludes to Johann Joseph Fux’s (1660-1741) Gradus ad Parnassum (“Steps to Parnassus”). Gradus ad Parnassum became the first ‘counterpoint text’ in the modern sense. This piece of Debussy is actually a rather ingenious study in finger independence with a Twentieth Century vocabulary. In the middle, the pianist slows down and tries his material in other keys for exercise. Debussy’s Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum is of intermediate difficulty and requires experienced fingers. The pianist gets wilder toward the end and finishes the piece with a bang.

Instrumentation:
version for SOLO CELLO by David Johnstone
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Please note –
this music is published by, and only available from, Segno dell’Aquila (Diane Chaplin)
https://www.cellochaplin.com/buy-published-music

Approximate difficulty:
For cello, to the contrary, this is a virtuoso version for advanced students and professionals. It is all playable however… on practise! Johnstone has tried to include the major harmonic implications possible without resorting to ugly chord spreads.

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