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Excerpt from The Piano Music of Claude Debussy
Two pieces however are directly inspired by the idea of the war one dated December, 1914, written originally for piano and orchestrated later, called Berceuse héroique, whose dedication is}: pour rendre hommage a S. M. Le Roi Albert let de Belge et a scs soldats and the other for song and piano, Noel des enfants qui n'ont plus de Maison, dated 1915. La Berceuse héroique'j' is a moving and dignified page, worthy of the senti ment which dictates it, in which, in an atmosphere whose tragic simplicity makes one think sometimes of Moussorgsky, resounds in noble guise that Brabanconne, whose voice, formerly intimate and modest, became the sublime voice of a people at war.
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