Hommage à Haydn, L. 123 (Debussy)
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Hommage à Haydn is a musical work by Claude Debussy written for piano , composed as part of the collective work Hommage à Joseph Haydn promoted by Jules Écorcheville for the Revue musicale SIM to celebrate the centenary in 1909 of Joseph ‘s death Haydn. Guy Sacre considers the Hommage à Haydn as a “writing exercise”:”After a short , distant and wry prelude , which constitutes the best moment of the work, with its way of deferring the key of G major ( slow waltz movement ), the theme is alternately diminished in garlands of sixteenth notes ( lively ), augmented in chorale in bass and soprano, fragmented in the high-pitched ( restrained ), derhythmed above a stubborn staccato in the left hand ( little by little animated ), treated in placid chords , pianissimo, before two measures of the prelude, and a final arabesque that pierces the treble of the piano
