Noel Des Enfants Qui N'Ont Plus De Maisons
For Two-Part Chorus and Piano
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For Two-Part Chorus and Piano. Composed by Claude Debussy. Christmas and Holiday. Choral. Performance Score. With Standard notation. Composed 15-Dec. 12 pages. Duration 3 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #362-03415. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.362034150).ISBN 9781491102442. UPC: 680160060054. 6.875 x 10.5 inches. Key: A minor. English, French.
Debussy wrote Christmas Carol for Homeless Children in 1915 during WWI as a plea for vengeance, a prayer from the French children that the Germans should have no Christmas. This is a carol that demonstrates strength and the power in numbers.
Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maisons (Christmas Carol for Homeless Children) was the final song Debussy composed. He created this work during World War I in response to the destruction of villages in France, Belgium, and Poland. Debussy was also succumbing to cancer at this time.More a political statement than a Christmas song, Debussy's own poem depicts orphaned French children praying that the Germans will have no Christmas and that Christ will abandon them.Debussy, more accustomed to creating music about beauty and nature than about war and tragedy, originally composed Noël des enfants for solo voice and piano in December 1915. In 1916 he created a Two-part Chorus version, with only the choral part published as a companion to the existing piano part.This new publication, with a modern English translation, is the first edition available with both a choral parts and the piano accompaniment provided together.