Clair de Lune (Suite bergamasque) · piano sheet music & MIDI file
Listen to Clair de Lune right on this page, then download the free MIDI file and its sheet music PDF, both cut from the same engraving.
Preview played right in your browser with the app's real piano (lightweight version). Inside Pianovera: full multi-layer sound, fingering display and Wait mode.
Almost the entire piece sits at piano or pianissimo, and this MIDI file keeps every original dynamic. That's the real challenge of Clair de Lune: not speed, not stretches, but staying soft, even and suspended for five minutes while big arpeggiated chords roll under a melody that floats.
We rate it intermediate with a caveat. The notes arrive slowly, yet you're managing near-constant pedal, wide chord shapes and a tune that drowns the moment your left hand gets enthusiastic. It's a control piece. Learn it patiently and it repays you for life, because nobody ever asks you to stop playing Clair de Lune.
What you'll be working on
- Voicing: making the melody sing above the chords
- Slow two-hand arpeggios that cross and overlap
- Clean pedal changes that don't blur the harmony
- Trusting the slow tempo (nothing here is in a hurry)
Playing Clair de Lune on piano with Pianovera
Pianovera's Scroll mode at 70% speed suits this one perfectly: you see chords coming from far away and have time to shape each hand position. The accuracy graph will tell you quickly whether your left hand is swallowing the tune.
Open Clair de Lune (Suite bergamasque) in Pianovera: notes fall toward the keyboard, each hand gets its color, and Wait mode is there if you're starting out.
Try Pianovera for freeDownload the Clair de Lune MIDI and sheet music
Two files are waiting for you: the Clair de Lune piano MIDI file (12 KB, opens in Pianovera or any MIDI player) and the Clair de Lune piano sheet music PDF (126 KB, printable). Both come from the same engraving: what you read on the score is exactly what you hear in the preview.
The work itself is in the public domain, and this MIDI engraving was placed in the public domain by its typesetter on the Mutopia Project. Use it freely, videos included.
About this piece
Is Clair de Lune hard to play on piano?
We rate it intermediate: 1468 notes over 5:23, spanning D#1 to C#7. The first thing to work on: voicing: making the melody sing above the chords.
Where can I get the sheet music for Clair de Lune?
Right on this page: the "View the sheet music" button opens the PDF (126 KB), engraved by the Mutopia Project from the same source as the MIDI file, Public domain license. View it, print it, keep it.
Is the Clair de Lune MIDI file really free?
Yes. Claude Debussy died more than 70 years ago, so the work (1905) is public domain. This MIDI engraving is public domain too: download it and use it freely, videos included.