Description
The titles of the Trois Impressions melt on the tongue: Harmonies du soir, Clair de lune, La nuit… Obviously, Claude Debussy inspired these pieces, and Clair de lune is even a literal borrowing: it is the title that Debussy gave to the third movement of his Suite bergamasque in 1905. Karg-Elert never captured the style of musical impressionism as profoundly and consistently as in these pieces. The Trois Impressions are unique in German organ music of its time.