Claude Debussy: The Girl with the Flaxen Hair

La fille aux cheveux de lin is a musical composition by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the eighth of the composer s Préludes, Book I (19091910). The title is in French and translates roughly to The Girl with the Flaxen Hair. The piece is 39 bars long and lasts about two and a half minutes. It is one of the most recorded of Debussy s pieces, both in its original version and various arrangements. It is in the key of G major. Pianist Walter Morse Rummel (18871953) gave the premiere of La Fille aux cheveux de lin on 26 July 1910 at the Casino, Stockbridge, Massachusetts.