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The other strings vibrate with sympathetic overtones, forming a halo over every note. Claude Debussy, who died a hundred years ago, was perhaps the first composer to write with this quality specifically in mind, to consciously harness it as part of his creative process.Although it was Debussy’s orchestral work “Prélude à L’Après-midi d’un Faune” that Pierre Boulez described as “the beginning of modern music,” it was always at the piano where his revolutionary new approach to form and timbre developed.[embedded content]With “Pagodes,” the first piece of his triptych “Estampes” (1903), we hear something totally fresh. Yes, Debu...