Debussy

New critical edition of the complete works

Editor in chief: Denis Herlin
General Editor: Edmond Lemaître
Founder: François Lesure (†)
Editorial committee: Pierre Boulez, Myriam Chimènes, Marius Flothuis (†), Claude Helffer (†), Roy Howat, Marie Rolf

Published with the support of Musica Gallica (French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Francis and Mica Salabert Foundation), the CNRS and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Founded at the instigation of François Lesure, editor in chief from 1985 to 2001, this monumental edition of the complete works of Claude Debussy comprises 34 volumes, arranged in six series:

• Series 1: Piano works (9 vol.)

Songs

Chamber music

Choral works

• Series 5: Orchestral works (10 vol.)

• Series 6: Stage works (4 vol.)

The important body of unpublished works as well as Debussy's many revisions of his published scores demonstrates the necessity for some truly critical work. In each volume the musical text is preceded by a foreword outlining its genesis; it is followed by critical notes describing the sources and the methodology for establishing the text. Preceding the appendix, variants are listed, the most important of which are indicated by references in bold characters. All known sources (sketches, manuscripts, proofs, editions, annotated copies, correspondence, historical recordings) have been systematically consulted and the proposed musical text may be considered definitive. When there are two versions of the same work, equally complete but including significant differences, both are published.
When two versions differ solely in an isolated passage, the earlier is given in the appendix. Works hitherto unpublished and incomplete works will be published in so far as the condition of the sources allows. The scientific editor's approach is commented upon in detail in the critical notes.

COMPLETE WORKS OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY

volumes bound in full cloth with illustrated dust jacket
format 230 x 310 mm or 260 x 340 mm

Musicological edition, bilingual presentation texts (French - English): foreword (chronology of the works), selective bibliography, critical notes (description of the sources), variants, appendices and facsimiles.

SERIES I

Piano Works

Volume 1 - edited by Roy Howat

• Danse bohémienne
• Danse (Tarentelle styrienne)
• Ballade (Ballade slave)
• Valse romantique
• Suite bergamasque
• Rêverie
• Mazurka
• Two Arabesques
• Nocturne

DURAND © 2000
XXVIII + 156 pages
D. & F. 15319

Volume 2 - edited by Roy Howat

• Images (1894)
• Pour le piano
• Children's corner

DURAND © 1998
XXIV + 120 pages
D. & F. 15112

Volume 3 - edited by Roy Howat

• Estampes
• D'un cahier d'esquisses
• Masques
• L'Isle joyeuse
• Images

^st

• Images

^nd

DURAND-COSTALLAT © 1991
XXIV + 182 pages
Sales reference: DB.15294

Volume 4 - edited by Christophe Grabowski

• Competition pieces
• The little Nigar
• Hommage à Haydn
• La plus que lente
• Six Épigraphes antiques
• Berceuse héroïque
• Pour l'Ouvre du « Vêtement du Blessé »
• Élégie
• Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon
• (Intermède)

DURAND © 2004
XX + 108 pages
D. & F. 15576

Volume 5 - edited by Roy Howat and Claude Helffer

• Preludes

^st

^nd

DURAND-COSTALLAT © 1985
XXII + 182 pages
Sales reference: DB.15295

Volume 6 - edited by Claude Helffer

• Studies

^st

^nd

DURAND-COSTALLAT © 1991
XX + 130 pages
Sales reference: DB.15296

Volume 7 - edited by Noël Lee
Works for four-hand piano

• Symphony
• Andante cantabile
• Diane Ouverture
• Triomphe de Bacchus
• Intermezzo
• L'Enfant prodigue
• Divertissement
• Printemps

DURAND © 2002
XXIV + 282 pages
D. & F. 15455

Volume 8 - edited by Noël Lee
Works for two pianos

• Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
• Lindaraja
• En blanc et noir

DURAND-COSTALLAT © 1986
XXIV + 102 pages
Sales reference: DB.15297

SERIES V

Orchestral works (orchestral parts available on hire)

Volume 2 bis -- edited by Jean-Pierre Marty with the collaboration of Denis Herlin and Edmond Lemaître

• Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre (2e version)

DURAND © 2007
XX + 226 pages
Sales reference: DB.15575

Volume 3 - edited by Denis Herlin

• Nocturnes

DURAND © 1999
XXVIII + 239 pages
D. & F. 15217

Orchestral parts

DURAND © 1999
Rental reference number: 467

Volume 5 - edited by Marie Rolf

• La Mer

DURAND © 1997
XX + 238 pages
D. & F. 15028

Orchestral parts

DURAND © 1999
Rental reference number: 466

Volume 8 - edited by Pierre Boulez and Myriam Chimènes

• Jeux

DURAND-COSTALLAT © 1988
XXII + 206 pages
Sales reference: DB.15298

Orchestral parts

DURAND © 1999
Rental reference number: 457

SERIES VI

Stage Works

Volume 1 - edited by Richard Langham Smith

• Rodrigue et Chimène

DURAND © 2003
LXXII + 332 pages
D. & F. 15510

Volume 3 - edited by Robert Orledge
Unfinished stage works:

• Le Roi Lear
• Le Diable dans le Beffroi
• La Chute de la Maison Usher

DURAND © 2006
XXV + 162 pages
D. & F. 15685

Orchestral parts for "Le Sommeil de Lear" (available for rental)

DURAND © 2006
Rental reference number: 6468

Published separately

Paperback edition of works from the hardbound volumes, with a short, bilingual foreword for works that appear in their entirety, without a critical apparatus.

Piano Works

• . D'un cahier d'esquisses

edited by Roy Howat
published separately from Series I, volume 3
12 pages

DURAND © 2006
D. & F. 15728

• 1

^st

Arabesque

edited by Roy Howat
published separately from Series I, volume 1
8 pages

DURAND © 2004
D. & F. 15616

• Bruyères

(from Preludes, 2^nd Book)
edited by Roy Howat and Claude Helffer
published separately from Series I, volume V
8 pages

DURAND © 2005
D. & F. 15679

• Estampes

edited by Roy Howat
published separately from Series I, volume 3
32 pages

DURAND © 2006
D. & F. 15681

• Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum

(from Children's corner)
edited by Roy Howat
published separately from Series I, volume 2
8 pages

DURAND © 2006
D. & F. 15738

• Golliwogg's Cake Walk

(from Children's Corner)
edited by Roy Howat
published separately from Series I, volume 2
8 pages

DURAND © 2005
D. & F. 15618

• Images

^st

• Images

^nd

• Jardins sous la pluie

• L'Isle Joyeuse

• La puerta del Vino

(from Preludes, 2^nd Book)
edited by Roy Howat and Claude Helffer
published separately from Series I, volume 5
8 pages

DURAND © 2005
D. & F. 15680

• Les Soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon

• Masques

• Minstrels

• Nocturne

• Pour le piano

• Preludes

^st

^nd

revised and corrected edition by Roy Howat and Claude Helffer
published separately from Series I, volume 5
148 pages

DURAND © 2004
D. & F. 15584

• Suite bergamasque

• The Little Nigar

edited by Christophe Grabowski
published separately from Series I, volume 4
8 pages

DURAND © 2006
D. & F. 15752

Melodies

• Nuits blanches

Study Scores

Édition au format 185 x 270 mm, sans apparat critique

• Nocturnes

for orchestra
edited by Denis Herlin
published separately from Series V, volume 3 in format 185 x 270 mm
142 pages

DURAND © 2000
D. & F. 15235