Le Printemps FL 60 de Debussy, page 1.jpg

Autograph manuscript of Claude Debussy: first page of the score of the reduction for choir and piano four hands of the work for 4-part choir (with solo soprano) and orchestra Springtime (« Le Printemps »), a setting to music of a poem by Jules Barbier which is partly a translation of two stanzas from one of Horace's Odes (Book 1, IV): Soluitur acris hiems ('s loosen'd Winter's thrall), or To Sestius. See "Sestia gens", "Sextia gens" and "Sextilia gens". Barbier's poem, in French. "Debussy's Rite of Spring": about Debussy's compositions about spring previous to "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" ("Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune"); in English, with the poems in French and English-translated; Barbier's "Le Printemps", on pages 6 to 10. The title alludes to Stravinsky's work "The Rite of Spring". Horace's ode translation into English (1872) by John Conington; on Wikisource. Horace's ode, in latin, on Wikisource.

Artist: Claude Debussy (1862-1918). License: Public domain. Source

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