A few months ago, a previously unpublished mélodie for voice and piano, Seguidille, was released as part of the collection Œuvres Complètes de Claude Debussy under the direction of Marie Rolf. The mélodie from 1882, based on a poem by Théophile Gautier, is the composer’s longest. Conceived as a song, rather than a sung poem, it is a masterful piece that evokes a grand, beautiful Spanish character. Edmond Lemaître presents the work and the context in which Debussy wrote it.