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Piano — In 1915 Debussy was approached by the war relief organization "Le Vêtement bu Blessé" ('the Dressing of the Wounded') with the request for a manuscript page which could be used in a fund-raising auction. Debussy obligingly provided not only an autograph page, but one containing a new piece for piano in the form of a short waltz. No trace has ever been found of this manuscript, but fortunately Debussy kept a copy which he the presented to his wife Emma on her jour de fêtexa0(name day) in June 1915.This surviving autograph manuscript (now in the Music Department of the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris: Ms. 14522) is headed, in Emma Debussy's writing, "Pour l'oeuvre du 'Vêtement du Blessé'". At the bottom of the page Debussy signs himself "Pour le 'vêtement' de ma petite mienne-Claude, Juin 1915"-a light-hearted pun between "vêtement" and "fêtement", referring to Emma's name day. A brief waltz for piano written in 1915 on the request of a war relief organization, "Le V?tement du Blessé"(" The Dressing of the Wounded"), Which was to be used in a fund raising auction. Although originally published in an edition by Maurice Dumesnil (who supplied the title) in 1933 by the Theodore Presser Company, this new edition by Roy Howat restores the text of the original manuscript, adding only necessary editorial indications. For studios, schools, colleges, professional. Easy.