Debussy's The Girl with The Flaxen Hair

The Girl with the Flaxen Hair (La fille aux cheveux de lin) is the eighth piece from Debussy's Préludes, Book I. It is one of the most recorded of Debussy's pieces, both in its original version and various arrangements.

Debussy's Préludes are pieces for solo piano divided into two separate books with twelve preludes in each book. Unlike previous collections of preludes, such as those of Chopin, Debussy's do not follow a strict pattern of key signatures.

With a musical style in which impression matters more than direction, the revolutionary French composer Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918) produced a body of magnificent music, strikingly different from that of previous composers and having profound influence on subsequent composers.