Histoire des nocturnes de claude debussy
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Abstract EN:
Debussy's three nocturnes pour orchestre, which started life as nocturnes pour violon et orchestre in 1894 were only completed at the end of 1899 after a difficult period. And yet this long and arduous genesis was only to give way to further revisions after the work had already been published. The numerous performances of the nocturnes during debussy's lifetime and his dissatisfaction during orchestral concert performances led him to rework the music, and these corrections were incorporated in two annotated copies. A comparison of the two corrected versions, however, reveals a number of contradictions. Because debussy then placed his works in the hands of a second publisher, he was not able to bring out a second edition during his lifetime, and it was not until twelve years after his death, in 1930, that a posthumous corrected edition was published with a number of modifications, but also introducing many inconsistencies. The aim of this thesis is to establish a definitive critical edition to be subject of a new publication.
Abstract FR:
D'abord concus en 1894 comme des nocturnes pour violon et orchestre, puis fin 1896, comme trois nocturnes pour orchestre, cette oeuvre ne vit le jour qu'a la fin de 1899, apres un chemin difficile dont maintes lettres a son protecteur et editeur georges hartmann se font l'echo. Pourtant a cette longue genese allait succeder une autre phase : celle des remaniements, une fois l'oeuvre editee en 1900. Les nombreuses executions des nocturnes du vivant de debussy et son insatisfaction lors des executions symphoniques l'ont conduit a corriger le texte musical de l7oeuvre. Ces amendements furent reportes sur deux exemplaires annotes. Mais la confrontation de ces deux editions corrigees revele un certain nombre de contradictions. Pour des raisons de changements d'editeur, debussy n'eut pas la possibilite de realiser une seconde edition de son vivant. Douze ans apres sa mort, une edition posthume corrigee (1930) fut publiee avec un certain nombre de modifications de facon fort incoherente. L'enjeu de cette these est de conduire a l'etablissement d'un texte critique definitif pour une nouvelle edition.