Syrinx, L. 129
by Claude Debussy
FluteImpressionistCharacter piece~3 minadvanced
Originally composed as incidental music for a play about Pan, Syrinx has become the single most important solo flute piece of the 20th century. Its free, improvisatory melody evokes the mythological Pan playing his pipes. The haunting chromatic writing, with its absence of bar lines in the original manuscript, challenges the flutist to create a seamless, breathing musical line.
Editions
Henle Verlag
Ernst-Günter Heinemann, 2008
Urtext based on the recently discovered autograph. Includes the original version without bar lines.
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Durand
Original publication, 1927
First published edition, posthumous. Added bar lines not present in Debussy's manuscript.
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