As part of a daylong programme of commemoration, celebration, and culture on the day before the centenary of Armistice Day, Florian Kaplick will perform a concert of works composed by Debussy during World War I, including his celebrated La boîte à joujoux.
Summary:
The 100th anniversary of the death of Claude Debussy deserves a special program. In the year before his death, the composer created an enchanting piece of music for a picture book by the artist and toymaker André Hellé:
When at midnight the clock’s last stroke settles into silence and all living things are soundly asleep, life begins for those who have spent the whole day in their cramped toybox: dolls, puppets, and soldiers.
But they do not have much time. Early each morning they must return to their box, as a normal lifeless toy. Like people during the day, the toys and playthings search through the night for happiness, for a good, right, and therefore fulfilling life. Unlike humans, however, toys have the chance to reinvent their lives every night. A Curse or a blessing?
Biography:
Florian Kaplik trained as a musician in Nuremberg under the tutelage of the pianist Ernst Gröschel and later at the Meistersinger-Konservatorium, a part of the Nuremberg University of Music. He is a versatile performer, able to express his varied artistic interests as a pianist, conductor, reciter, and Dadaist at home and abroad.
Claude Debussy is a French composer who straddled the 19th and 20th centuries. Known as a free-spirited and noncomformist musician, Debussy was often characterised as a musical impressionist, a label he never accepted. His music is most notable for its chromatic liberty and the attention given to selecting each instrument’s timbre.
This event is delivered as a coproduction with the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Edinburgh
Event details:
Debussy and World War I Centenary Concert
Saturday, 10 November 2018, 7 - 8pm
FREE, but ticketed
Institut français d'Ecosse
West Parliament Square
Edinburgh EH1 1RF
Advanced booking recommended ONLINE via our extranet, at 0131 285 60 30, or at info ifecosse.org.uk
Image: Couverture du livret de ballet de “La Boîte à joujoux,” 1913
Credit: André Hellé
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