La fille aux cheveux de lin Hair" for clarinet and string orchestra, which was performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Richard Stoltzman. Footnotes Bibliography La fille aux cheveux de lin La fille aux cheveux de lin is a musical composition for solo piano by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the eighth piece in the composer's first book of "Préludes", written between late 1909 and early 1910. The title is in French and translates roughly to "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair". The piece is 39 measures long and takes approximately two and a half minutes to play. It is in the key of
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