With the three movements Pagodes, La soirée dans Grenade (An evening in Granada) und Jardins sous la pluie (Gardens in the rain) Debussy creates a poetic world of landscapes and distant lands in the cycle Estampes. He composed the pieces in summer 1903 while he was staying in Bichain in the north of Burgundy. As he wrote in a letter at the time: “If one cannot afford to travel, one substitutes the imagination.” In the virtuosic final movement he draws on his pioneering Images from the year 1894 (HN 846).
德布西的《版畫集》由三個樂章組成:《寶塔》(Pagodes)、《格拉納達之夜》(La soirée dans Grenade)和《雨中花園》(Jardins sous la pluie),他藉此營造了一個充滿詩意的風景世界,描繪了遙遠的異國情調。這些作品創作於1903年夏天,當時他正居住在勃根地北部的比尚。正如他當時在一封信中所寫:「如果無法遠行,那就用想像力來代替。」在炫技的終樂章中,他借鑒了自己1894年創作的開創性作品《意象集》(HN 846)。