Claude Debussy

L'Isle Joyeuse

Musique française' is a series designed for students and teachers as well as professionals. These editions offer masterworks in French music, with performance suggestions and historical and stylistic commentary by noted scholars. This edition of L'Isle joyeuse is based on printed copies by Éditions Durand that appeared during the composer's lifetime, as well as the handwritten manuscript kept at the department of music of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. The editor Edmond Lemaître has also taken into account the score in -uvres complètes de Claude Debussy, Série I, volume 3, edited by Roy Howat.