Suite bergamasque in their album "The Phosphorescent Blues". Suite bergamasque The Suite bergamasque () is one of the most famous piano suites by Claude Debussy. It was first composed by Debussy around 1890, at the age of 28, but was significantly revised just before its publication in 1905. The composer was loath to publish these relatively early piano compositions because they were not in his mature style, but in 1905 accepted the offer of a publisher who thought they would be successful given the fame Debussy had won in the intervening fifteen years. While it is not known how much of the
Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Tchaikovsky) the two he had previously written. The problem lay with the opening movement. Titled "Contrastes", it was to be a fantasia of contrasting musical sounds and patterns, not unlike the "Jeu de sons" movement that opened the Second Orchestral Suite. The more he worked with the music, the more recalcitrant the music became and the more he hated it. "Contrastes" finally found its way into the Concert Fantasia. Tchaikovsky's original layout for the Third Suite was similar to that of his Second—a fairly large opening movement as in his first two orchestral suites, then three smaller ones and a theme–and–variations