ADRIANA BERA
Mozart and Debussy, or opposites attract
Abstract
This topic came to my mind many years ago, while I was studying Mozart’s piano sonatas after having just performed Claude Debussy's 24 Préludes. It was then that I realized that the composers' two incredibly different sound universes, which emerge from quite opposite aesthetical and emotional contexts, require a surprisingly similar pianistic technique. In 2018, the year of Debussy’s centennial, the issue came again to my attention. This paper is an attempt to analyze and explain, first of all to myself, the reasoning behind that strange similarity.
Keywords
Mozart, Debussy, piano music, diversity of expression, piano technique