Claire de Lune, vor bananan und klavier

[jon-nyc]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeBS4vE8/

[Horace]

Recently saw Claire de Lune at the top of someone’s list of best piano compositions of all time.

[Mik]

First piece I really got in my fingers.

[jon-nyc]

First piece I really got in my banana.

[Mik]

That should surprise me. It does not.

[LuFins Dad]

Debussy is my favorite composer from a listening perspective.

[kluurs]

My family was not classical music focused, but everyone loved Claire de Lune. It was one of the few pieces that Victor Borge seemed willing to perform without joking around. I play it once in a while to keep it from getting too far gone from my hands.

[Aqua's Sister]

You should see what I can do with a banana.

[LuFins Dad]

@kluurs said in Claire de Lune, vor bananan und klavier:

My family was not classical music focused, but everyone loved Claire de Lune. It was one of the few pieces that Victor Borge seemed willing to perform without joking around. I play it once in a while to keep it from getting too far gone from my hands.

Here’s the thing about Debussy… I hear jazz when I listen to him. Let me piss off a bunch of people right now… While African American blues is certainly a very large part of the development of jazz, it was equally influenced and shaped by French Impressionist composers. Now they were in turn influenced by the African American musicians (Listen to Golliwog’s Cakewalk and tell me with a straight face that ain’t a ragtime piece), the French also influenced the developing American Jazz musicians. Jazz is generally recognized to have been developed by African Americans ~ 1917-1920, you had very similar styles developing in France. Ravel both heavily influenced and was influenced by the burgeoning musical style…

Then there’s Satie… Tell me that’s not Jazz… Gymnopedie 1 was composed in the 1880s , decad s before the supposed creation of Jazz…