Impressionist · French
Claude Debussy
1862 – 1918
Claude Debussy reinvented the piano. His Préludes, Études, Images, Estampes, and Children's Corner replaced traditional development with colour, perfume, and atmospheric tableau. The piano became a vehicle for evocation rather than rhetoric.
Debussy's influence runs through almost every twentieth-century French composer and shaped the modern conception of pianistic colour and pedalling.
The 55 public-domain piano works listed below are sortable, downloadable as PDF score editions, and free to study, perform, record, and re-engrave. Each piece links to its individual page with full catalog data, performance notes, and historical context. Browse more works from the Impressionist era, or use the difficulty filters below to narrow by technical level.
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Piano works by Claude Debussy
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All works listed by Open Opus
141 works · Data from Open Opus (openopus.org), released into the public domain (CC0) — fetched 2026-09-11. Catalog entries only: title, subtitle, and genre classification as published by Open Opus. These are not downloadable score editions.
By genre, from Open Opus’s own classification on this composer’s work records: 46 Keyboard · 16 Orchestral · 10 Chamber · 65 Vocal · 4 Stage.
- 2 RomancesVocal
- 2 Romances, L.79Vocal
- 3 Ballades de Villon, L.119Vocal
- 3 Chansons de Charles d'Orléans, L.92Vocal
- 3 Mélodies, L.81Vocal
- 3 Poèmes de Mallarmé, L.127Vocal
- 5 Poèmes de Baudelaire, L.64Vocal
- 6 Épigraphes antiques, for piano 4-hands, L.131Keyboard
- 6 Épigraphes antiques, L.131Keyboard
- Aimons nous et dormons, L.16Vocal
- Apparition, L.53Vocal
- Ariettes oubliées, L.60Vocal
- Ballade slave, L.70Keyboard
- Ballade, for piano 4-handsKeyboard
- Beau soir, L.6, "Lorsque au soleil couchant les rivières sont roses"Vocal
- Berceuse héroïque, L.132Keyboard
- Berceuse, L.93, "Il était une fois une fée qui avait un beau sceptre"Vocal
- CapriceVocal
- Cello Sonata in D minor, L.135Chamber
- Chanson espagnole, song for 2 voices and piano, L.42Vocal
- Chansons de Bilitis, for narrator, 2 flutes, 2 harps and celesta, L.96Chamber
- Chansons de Bilitis, L.90Vocal
- Chansons de France, L.102Vocal
- Children's Corner, L.113Keyboard
- Coquetterie posthume, L.39Vocal
- D'un cahier d'esquisses, L.99Keyboard
- Dans le jardin, L.78, "Je regardais dans le jardin"Vocal
- Danse bohémienne, L.9Keyboard
- Danse sacrée et danse profane, for harp and orchestra, L.103Orchestral
- Divertissement, for piano 4-hands, L.36Keyboard
- Elégie, L.138Keyboard
- En blanc et noir, for 2 pianos, L.134Keyboard
- Estampes, L.100Keyboard
- Étude retrouvée, for pianoKeyboard
- Études, L.136Keyboard
- Fantaisie, for piano and orchestra, L.73Orchestral
- Fantoches, L.21Vocal
- Fête galante, L.23Vocal
- Fêtes galantes, Set 1, L.80Vocal
- Fêtes galantes, Set 2, L.104Vocal
- Fleur des blés, L.7Vocal
- Flots Palmes SablesVocal
- Fugue pour le concours d'essai, Prix de Rome CompetitionKeyboard
- Fugue pour le concours de fugueKeyboard
- Hommage à Joseph Haydn, L.115Keyboard
- Hymnis, for voice, chorus, and orchestra, L.37Vocal
- Il dort encoreVocal
- Images inédites, L.87Keyboard
- Images oublieesKeyboard
- Images, Book 1, L.110Keyboard
- Images, Book 2, L.111Keyboard
- Images, L.122Orchestral
- IntermèdeKeyboard
- Intermezzo, for cello and orchestraOrchestral
- Invocation, cantata for male chorus and orchestra, L.40Vocal
- JaneVocal
- Jeux, L.126 — BalletStage
- Khamma, L.125 — BalletStage
- L'archetVocal
- L'enfant prodigue, scène lyrique for voices and orchestra, L.57Vocal
- L'isle joyeuse, L.106Keyboard
- La belle au bois dormant, L.74Vocal
- La boîte à joujoux, L.128 — BalletStage
- La damoiselle élue, for womens voices and orchestra, L.62Vocal
- La fille aux cheveux de lin, L.33Vocal
- La grotteVocal
- La Mer, L.109 — Three symphonic sketchesOrchestral
- La plus que lente, L.121Keyboard
- La romance d'Ariel, L.54Vocal
- Le gladiateur, cantata for 3 soloists and orchestra, L.41, "Mort aux Romains, tuez jusqu'au dernier"Vocal
- Le lilas, L.22Vocal
- Le martyre de Saint Sébastien, for soloists, chorus and orchestra, L.124 — Incidental musicOrchestral
- Le petit negreKeyboard
- Le petit nègre, L.114Keyboard
- Le Printemps, cantata for women's chorus and orchestra, L.24Vocal
- Le promenoir des deux amants, L.118Vocal
- Le roi Lear, L.107Orchestral
- Le triomphe de BacchusOrchestral
- Les Angélus, L.76, "Cloches chrétiennes pour les matines"Vocal
- Les papillonsVocal
- Les roses, L.13Vocal
- Les soirs illuminés par l'ardeur du charbon, for pianoKeyboard
- Lindaraja, for 2 pianos, L.97Keyboard
- Madrid, princesse des EspagnesVocal
- Mandoline, L.29Vocal
- Marche écossaise, sur un thème populaire, for piano 4-hands, L.77Keyboard
- MasquesKeyboard
- Masques, L.105Keyboard
- Mazurka, L.67Keyboard
- Morçeau de concours, L.108Keyboard
- Musique, L.44Vocal
- Nocturne and Scherzo for Cello and Piano, L.26Chamber
- Nocturne, L.82Keyboard
- Nocturnes, L.91Orchestral
- Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison, L.139Vocal
- Nuit d'étoiles, L.4Vocal
- Nuits blanchesVocal
- Ouverture 'Diane', for piano 4-handsKeyboard
- Page d'album, L.133Keyboard
- Pantomime, L.31Vocal
- Paysage sentimental, L.45Vocal
- Pelléas et Mélisande, L.88 — OperaStage
- Petite Pièce, for clarinet and piano, L.120Chamber
- Petite suite, for piano 4-hands, L.65Keyboard
- Piano Trio, L.3Chamber
- Pièce san titreKeyboard
- Pierrot, L.15Vocal
- Pour le piano, L.95Keyboard
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, L.86Orchestral
- Préludes, Book 1, L.117Keyboard
- Préludes, Book 2, L.123Keyboard
- Première rapsodie, for clarinet and orchestraOrchestral
- Premiere Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano, L.116Chamber
- Première Rhapsodie, for pianoKeyboard
- Première Suite, for orchestraOrchestral
- Printemps, symphonic suite for chorus, piano and orchestra, L.61Orchestral
- Proses lyriques, L.84Vocal
- Regret, L.55Vocal
- Rêverie, L.68Keyboard
- Rêverie, L.8Vocal
- Rhapsody, for alto saxophone and orchestra, L.98Orchestral
- Romance: Silence ineffableVocal
- Romance: Silence ineffable, L.43Vocal
- Romance: Voici que le printemps, L.52Vocal
- Rondeau, L.30Vocal
- Rondel chinois, L.17, "Sur le lac bordé d'azalée"Vocal
- SerenadeVocal
- Sérénade, song for voice and piano, L.34Vocal
- Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp, L.137Chamber
- Souhait, L.11Vocal
- String Quartet in G minor, L.85, op. 10Chamber
- Suite Bergamasque, L.75Keyboard
- Suite Bergamasque, no. 3, for orchestraOrchestral
- Symphony in B minorOrchestral
- Syrinx, for solo flute, L.129Chamber
- Tarantelle styrienne, L.69Keyboard
- TragedieVocal
- Trois mélodies de VerlaineVocal
- Valse romantique, L.71Keyboard
- Violin Sonata in G minor, L.140Chamber
- Zéphyr, L.12Vocal