André Caplet
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André Léon Caplet was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy who orchestrated several of his compositions, as well as arrangements of several of them for
Caplet in 1910
Caplet with Claude Debussy
L'enfant prodigue (Debussy)
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L'enfant prodigue is a scène lyrique, or lyric scene, by Claude Debussy to a text by Édouard Guinand. Scored for soprano, tenor, baritone and piano, it bears the catalog number L.61. Its premiere came
André Caplet
…the position to enhance his reputation as a conductor and to introduce contemporary French repertoire to the United States; for example, Debussy's L'enfant prodigue, the Children's Corner, Pelléas et Mélisande, and the incidental music to Le Martyre de saint Sébastien. At the end of 1914, after he had completed two…
Portrait of Claude Debussy by Marcel Baschet, 1884