La fille aux cheveux de lin or 'The girl with the flaxen hair' is probably the best known of Debussy's Preludes. He wrote two books of Preludes for the piano and this is the eighth of 12 pieces in Book 1 which he composed between December 1909 and February 1910. He wrote the second book, also containing 12 pieces, between the last months of 1912 and April 1913.

This lovely arrangement for string orchestra is by Lee Armstrong.