La Mer

Claude Debussy‘s La Mer is an impressionistic work through and through. The three symphonic sketches that make up the work were composed between 1903-1905, however Debussy refined this work upuntil at least 1913. These corrections are found in a score which the composer gave to his wife as a present for her private library in 1913.

The new scholarly-critical edition draws on several important sources previouslyunavailable to musicologists, resulting in an array of new readings and corrections. In addition, there are many changes, especially in terms of articulation and dynamics.

This new edition includes the famous “fanfare”inMovement III, clearly marked in small print and brackets. This fanfare was excised in the 1910 reissue of the work, but was reinstated by a number of great conductors who knew Debussy, i.e. Monteux, Münch, Mitropoulosand Ansermet. They felt that the excision was a misunderstanding and that the fanfare was necessary for the structure of the movement. And so, the Bärenreiter edition presents the revival of a performing tradition which iscommitted to the fanfare.

• New Urtext edition with numerous corrections in comparison to other editions.
• Important sources which were previously inaccessible have been taken into account.
• Score andorchestral parts in large format (25.5 x 32.5cm).
• Score and orchestral parts with an impeccable, generous layout.
• Includes an informative introduction (Eng/Fr/Ger), facsimiles, source descriptions and a CriticalCommentary (Eng).