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
Portrait of Claude Debussy by Marcel Baschet, 1884
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
L'enfant prodigue (Debussy)
…Taskin (Siméon). Debussy's prize included a three-year (1885-1887) Académie des Beaux-Arts scholastic residency at the Villa Medici. With the help of André Caplet in 1907, L'enfant prodigue was orchestrated. The premiere of this version took place at the Sheffield Music Festival the following year conducted by…
Caplet in 1910
Caplet with Claude Debussy