Description
Debussy wrote his famous Children’s Corner Suite (1908) for his beloved daughter, Claude-Emma, whom he nicknamed Chouchou. The suite recalls classicism—the opening piece Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum refers to Muzio Clementi’s collection of instructional piano compositions Gradus ad Parnassum, as well as a new wave of American ragtime music. In the popular final piece of the suite, Golliwogg’s Cakewalk, Debussy also pokes fun at Richard Wagner by mimicking the opening bars of Wagner’s prelude to Tristan und Isolde. In this edition we find Golliwogg’s Cake-walk as a single piece. Edited by Hans Swarsenski. Edition Peters.
