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  • 4 - The Young Debussy Reconsidered through his Early Chamber Music

  • from Part II - Analysis
  • Edited by Barbara L. Kelly, University of Leeds, David J. Code, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    Debussy Studies 2
    Published online:
    15 November 2025
    Print publication:
    06 November 2025, pp 89-111

  • Summary

    This chapter reappraises Debussy’s Piano Trio of 1880 and his two substantial cello pieces of 1882, in the light of having edited them for the Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy. Surviving documentation suggests that Debussy, while working for Nadezhda von Meck in summer 1880, aimed at producing a Trio in Russian character, one that may even have played a part in prompting Tchaikovsky’s Trio of two years later. The structural cohesion and character of the work are also reassessed, including the editorial challenge of completing a passage for which only a cello part survives. Similar reappraisal is applied to Debussy’s two cello pieces of 1882, and clarification offered of the titling of one of the pieces, which has long been labelled Nocturne et Scherzo (despite being neither): that title appears to have been mistakenly carried over from a pair of entirely different violin pieces now lost.