Właściwości formalne sonat Debussy’ego w kontekście idei powrotu do tradycji muzyki francuskiej
Formal Properties of Debussy’s Sonatas in the Context of Return to the Tradition of French Music

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the late works by Claude Debussy – three of Six sonates pour instruments divers (the only three he had finished before his death). The analysis, particularly analysis of their form, is the main topic of this paper. The author considers the form of the sonatas in the context of the political and sociological tendency to return to the “real” French music. This idea, very popular in France in the late 19th and at the beginning of the 20th century, could have had some impact on Debussy’s last works. The aim of this paper is to describe the influence of these tendencies on the form of Debussy’s sonatas and to prove that they imposed the change of his creative attitude.

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