Customer Reviews for Claire De Lune
joan
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
July 25, 2011
A wonderful piece of music
I agree with those who say it is totally worth learning and the rewards are great. This particular edition is, well, the print is a little fuzzy. (Maybe it is just my copy) On bright white paper. I think I will look for another edition.
12 of 32 people found this review helpful.
Connor
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
August 19, 2010
Give it a Whirl
Learn it- you won't regret it. That's all I can say! My dad isn't much of a music person, and when I played it for him, he actually realized there was some "story" behind it, so that must mean something. Good copy. Etc. Buy. ;)
30 of 56 people found this review helpful.
Location: from Lapoint, Utah
Difficulty Level:
Not sure
February 16, 2010
Go for it!
I've noticed that many of the comments have warned beginners away. No offense intended towards those who commented along those lines, but anyone who truly loves a song can learn to play that song! This piece is so beautiful that it lulls you in, learning it is no barrier. I learned to play the Moonlight Sonata in a week when I was twelve simply because I loved the song. If passion can enable me to do that, then I say, go for it! If you love the song, play it!
34 of 62 people found this review helpful.
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
November 24, 2009
Amazingly Beautiful
This song is amazing i love it, it has a touch that most songs do not have.
27 of 59 people found this review helpful.
Syd
Location: from Durham, CT
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
October 6, 2009
Breathtaking.
There's something about this piece that makes it so much different than other pieces. I've heard so many pieces that just don't have the life; the expression; that this piece has. I've cried numerous times while listening to it, and every time I learn a new part to the song i cry. It's just so beautiful. Any true pianist would be able to capture the immaculate beauty this piece holds between its pages. I'm working on it. It's a very difficult piece, but the flow is there. It's just beautiful. It's like the angels are singing when you play it. thats all I can say.
35 of 60 people found this review helpful.
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
September 22, 2009
Twilight comment
I would just like to say to Anonymous of Ohio that not all teens think this is a new song and if anything, it might have brought more of them to listen to classical music, I am one of those teens and I am tired of people making generalizations about us.
17 of 40 people found this review helpful.
Mike
Location: from SC
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
June 20, 2009
Beauty
This piece sounds pretty on piano, but the orchestra and string arrangements REALLY bring this piece to life. The pure emotion you can bring with a wind instrument or a violin can truly bring this piece to its highest level.
10 of 18 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Ohio
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
February 23, 2009
Amazing
This piece is absolutely amazing!!! I wished they didn't put it in the Twilight movie, though!!! It makes me mad that teens listened to this in the movies and they think it is a brand new song! At least classical music can keep up with modern times. Overall, wonderful, inspirering piece!
7 of 16 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 20, 2009
Beautiful!
This music is beautiful to play and such an amazing song I recommend it to anyone and it is so much fun to play!
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Portland, Maine
Difficulty Level:
Not sure
July 16, 2008
Great Music
This piece is a favorite from when I was younger. I am a 41 year old who has played since I was 5. Debussy's music is fun to play and beautiful to listen to. It is challenging enough to require full attention without being too difficult to learn. This is the one piece that I have come back to over and over again...so much that my sheet music had to be replaced!
8 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Hedgesville, WV
June 30, 2008
Absolutley inspiring
I agree with Sydney 13. This piece DOES make you cry. Anyone who loves this piece just as much as i do, should pick up the sheet music and go for it and you will never regret it. It is so timeless and it will NEVER get old in my sheet music gallery. :) Good luck!
8 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Sydney, 13
Location: from Durham, CT
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
June 22, 2008
Truly Moving
Any piano player knows what I mean when I say that this piece makes you cry, mezmorizes you, and makes you play beautifully. I can't discribe how much I love this piece, and hope one day to come close to how great Debussy plays, how he catches the emotion and feeling of a true piano peice, makes your heart soar with beauty & Talent. Georgous melody, nice harmony, a true classical piece that will never get old.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Bill Edwards
Location: from Tampa FL
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
April 18, 2008
Timeless Classic
There's a reason this piece gets played over and over down through the years: beauty never goes out of style. Lush harmonies, evocative melodies - very satisfying for both performer and audience.
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Michael Bradley-Robbins
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
March 20, 2008
A work of art
I fell in love with this piece the first time I heard it. Debussy did a masterful job composing it, and I can't hold a candle to the masterful playing I fell in love with--that of Timothy Lovelace. Nevertheless, when I played the notes on the page, I heard the piece unfold before me and I had to go on. I have yet to get past the first page, but I love how the piece challenges me. A word of caution: NOT for beginners.
7 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Joel
Location: from Palm Beach, FL
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
February 15, 2008
Something we have wanted
for a while. Very well printed. A masters original. We both play.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
R. Cook
Location: from Hayville, KS
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
January 3, 2008
Lovely Piece of Music
I ordered this to replace an old, old, old piece of sheet music, a copy of which my son wanted. It is the same, other than the cover illustration. It is great to be able to pass beautiful music on from generation to generation. He also wanted Bumble Boogie as a Christmas gift, and I was able to purchase that at Sheet Music Plus as well. That, in his words, will have a more extended learning period.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
AM
Location: from Indy, IN
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
January 2, 2008
Claire De Lune
Great piece! Sheetmusicplus.com was great! Package arrived in just a few short days!
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Park City
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
November 7, 2007
Beautiful
The piece is beautiful - the paper was nice quality and the piece is beautiful and fun to play!
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
November 1, 2007
One of the World's Best Pieces
People love this piece. It's a real crowd-pleaser in every situation I've used it in. It helps to have a good understanding of key signatures and tonality, and to have done lots of finger drills. I've been playing it for 30+ years now and use some of the faster parts for my limited practice schedule. Helps me keep in shape and always ready to play this piece a moment's notice.
7 of 15 people found this review helpful.
JK
Location: from Columbus, Ga
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
September 3, 2007
debussy did it again
okay i am in love with this composer... period. this piece only personifies his greatness... this piece is not the most difficult of his collection... but like with most songs, it has parts that will take some serious practice... i dont recommend playing this piece unless you are willing to seriously work out some extreme fingering... yeah!!!
8 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Susanville, CA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
June 21, 2007
beautiful music
beautiful music!
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Dighton, KS
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
March 21, 2007
Beautiful song!!!
This piece was played at my parents wedding and my mom requested my piano teacher teach me this piece. I heard it on a CD of piano encores and it's so beautiful. I love playing it even though I kind of fell back when I saw it was in D-flat major. But anyways, it's a great piece!!!
7 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Beginner
February 27, 2007
Anyone can play this
I would just comment that I had never played piano before, but decided I must teach this piece to myself on piano and I was able to. I was able to get the notes down with about a week of intense practice, and I've played it ~once a day for the past four weeks and I've gotten it down really solidly so that it sounds good too. I'm still not fully on tempo, but this piece is extermely managable if you're dedicated even if you've never played piano before in your life.
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
PianoPlayer
Location: from Boston, MA
September 6, 2006
Gorgeous Melody
This is a great piece, but I'll let the other reviewers chime in. For those who loved this piece, then I recommend the following other pieces by Debussy: 1. Valse Romantique 2. Reverie 3. Girl with the Flaxen Hair. 4. Ballade All are just as beautiful as Claire De Lune. I think they are better from a compositional standpoint. 1&2 are just about as technically challenging, but shorter than Claire. The last one is very challenging piece to play. I also recommend any of Debussy's early works. I love all of Debussy's works, but sometimes his later works sound too "new age." For those who heard Claire De Lune from Ocean's 11, then I strongly recommend you discover Chopin, who was Debussy teacher, and in many ways a much better piano composer. Here's some pieces by Chopin: 1: Etude Op 10 No 3 "Tristesse Etude" 2: Etude Op 25 No 1 "Aolian Harp Etude" 3: First and Fourth Ballade 4: Raindrop Prelude 5: All of his Nocturnes and Waltzes.
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
anonymous
Location: from chickentown
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
September 2, 2006
very nice
i love this song!!!!! its is so beautiful and i just cant believe that debussy can be so brilliantin composing such a beautiful relaxing piece. If you ever play or hear itbeing played, think of the impression (since debussy was an impressionist) debussy tried to make becausein french, clair de lune means moonlight
8 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Kristen
Location: from Sussex County, New Jersey
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 26, 2006
love this song!!
i first heard this song from the remake of Ocean's Eleven (that, mght I add, is a very good movie). This is my favorite piece of music to play. I also recommend Moonlight Sonata.
8 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Irving, TX
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 20, 2006
Amazing Piece
I am 13 years old and I taught myself to play Clair De Lune this year. I've played piano for five years and this is my favorite piece yet. It's amazing that there are some people in the world that can create such beautiful masterpieces as this one.
7 of 12 people found this review helpful.
world'sagainstme
Location: from
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
April 25, 2006
**Dreamy**
When you hear Claire De Lune, you will totally escape from today. It's so dreamy, so beautiful, so haunting. If you are/have been in love, Claire De Lune will definitely remind you of that special time in your life. Claire De Lune rivals Pachebel's Canon in D... it is truly a magnificent song. You will be lost in this song. I recommend this song to anyone with a lot of misery in their life. You'll feel good again once you play/hear this song.
4 of 9 people found this review helpful.
Matt
Location: from Fort Wayne, IN
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
February 3, 2006
Simply amazing
I actually heard this for the first time from "Ocean's Eleven", and I literally stopped the movie right then to go online and find out what the peice was, and bought it immediately. This is my favorite piano piece of all time, with its notable recurring themes and flowing melodies. I love it and would highy recommend it to anyone who loves classical music.
7 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Boston, MA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
January 14, 2006
Its a Tear Jerker
I learned to play this last year, when I was 12 and I loved it. When I played it at my recital, everyone came up to me afterwards and told me how beautiful the piece was.
8 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anna
Location: from Mercersburg, Pa
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
December 29, 2005
Divine.
I'm an intermediate piano player, so I struggled with Claire de Lune terribly, however, the beauty of the piece motivated me to perfect my performance of it. I'm not one to brag, but friends and family were very impressed, and I am never too tired of it.
5 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Scott, 18
Location: from Long Beach, MS
May 25, 2005
Everyone will Love this song.
I am in my 4th year of lessons, and this is the song I most recently learned to play. I heard it and just had to learn it no matter what. It has its challenging parts, but they aren't anything a little determination won't fix. The last recital I played this in literally made tears come to people's eyes. A definate must have!
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Ran
Location: from CA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate
March 19, 2005
my fingers are sore...but in a good way!
Outstanding piece. Can't remember when the first time I heard it, but I do know that its been lingering in my head for quite some time now. I did a web search for the sheet music, ended up on this website, now I'm the proud owner of original composition. Not as difficult as I thought, and its VERY ADDICTING!!!
6 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Maia
Location: from Madrid, Spain
Difficulty Level:
Early intermediate
February 28, 2005
Wonderful
As someone has said, this piece made me continue with piano. When i was 5 years old I started playing the piano, 7 years later I started hating it, but then my professor gave me this to play. And... Oh my God... i became like a "piano addicted", I could feel the French Tendress and I was like involved in a magic aurea everytime I played it.
8 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Northern California
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
February 19, 2005
Most Beautiful Piece I've Ever Played
Not many songs sound really good on the piano...this one is the most beautiful piece I've ever played and I've played on and off for 39 years! This song has made me want to play again...
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Maria
Location: from Chicago, IL
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
January 9, 2005
Thrilled and Relieved!
I am so thrilled to have the original version! I've had bad experiences with arragements. This piece is so moving and wonderful. It gives me chills.
6 of 14 people found this review helpful.
Grant Luebe 14
Location: from Cedar Rapids, IA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
September 20, 2004
a masterpiece
When my teacher first played this for me I immediately had a huge desire to play it. Besides a few hard measures, it's actually not that difficult of a piece. I would say if you are an advanced player you could pick this up in a month or so. I've been workin on it for almost 2 months and I almost have it performance ready.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Philip Stasko
Location: from Schoharie,NY
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
July 6, 2004
Entrancing
The first time that I heard this piece,I fell into a different world.I do not know how to play piano,but this has motivated me to do so.The magical melody and flowing harmony make my fingers crave to perform such a wonder.I envy accomplished piano players,but I hope to soon become one of them.To all other amateurs I say,"Go for it!"
7 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Daniel S
Location: from Manchester, UK
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
March 21, 2004
This piece that got me playing piano!
This piece is absolutely haunting, its fantastic and my fingers feel truly stasfied after playing it. The expression that comes out of this piece every time is different yet still breathtaking. It was this piece that made me want to play the piano. I'm now 15 and after 8 years of playing the paino, i've mastered it. I thought i'd find it harder because its apparently ABRSM grade 7 (can anybody confirm/deny it and i've only taken upto grade 2 but thats because i hate exams, another story, another time) however there is the odd bar thats quite tricky. I'm hopefully soon going to be embarking on the rest of the suite bergamasque because i know that rest is just as beautiful!
7 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Ashley M.
Location: from Marietta, GA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
November 3, 2003
Amazing
An amazing solo piece; however, not for beginners. It's a bit tricky to pick up on at first, but once you get the fingering down, you get lost in the music. Claire de Lune is one of my favorite pieces to play- very moving, very powerful, and extremely beautiful. I HIGHLY recommend it to those who have been playing for a few years. It reminds you why you play the piano...
8 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Maeve
Location: from NYC
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
October 22, 2003
fabulous!!!
I absolutely love this song. It is one of the greatest songs ever written, in my opinion. Just listening to it gives me the chills, so I was really happy when I learned how to play it!! Buy this music and I guarantee you will also love it.
6 of 12 people found this review helpful.
Paula
Location: from England
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
March 26, 2003
This is a fantastic piece of music
When I heard this music in the remake of Ocean's Eleven I knew I had to find it. If I'm in a bad mood I play this and I feel instantly better. It reminds me why i play the Piano!
5 of 15 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Martinez, GA
Difficulty Level:
Intermediate/advanced
January 12, 2003
Lovely music
When I first heard this piece of music, I knew I had to learn it. The song is so beautiful, I get lost in its flowing notes. I have been playing for over five years and was difficult for me to learn some parts; however, I recommend this music to anyone who plays the piano. It is worth learning.
6 of 13 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from NY
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
November 28, 2001
One of my favorite piano solos
I love this song by Debussy, it gives me chills when I am playing it or when I hear someone else playing it. It took me awhile to learn, not for the beginner pianist! It's a beautiful song
4 of 10 people found this review helpful.
Anonymous
Location: from Belgium
Difficulty Level:
Advanced
January 17, 2001
The creator of nature
When I listenend for the first time to "Claire de Lune", I directly loved it. When you can play it yourself, you can help Debussy in creating nature.
4 of 11 people found this review helpful.