Franois Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well as of the artisti
Claude Debussyhas exercised widespread influence over later generations of composers, both in his native France and elsewhere. He was trained at the Paris Conservatoire, and decided there on a career as a composer rather than as a pianist, his original intention. His highly characteristic musical l...
Claude Debussy's Music Debussy's Compositions Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions How would you describe the music of Debussy? The music of Claude Debussy is full of timbre (color) and harmony. He utilized instruments in different ways to produce a variety of feelings for the listener. ...
Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a 20th-century French composer and one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist classical music.
Pell�as et M�lisande (1892) - his most famous Symbolist drama, made into an opera in 1902 by Claude Debussy Monna Vanna (1902) L'Oiseau bleu (1908; The Blue Bird) Le Bourgmestre de Stilmonde (1918; The Burgomaster of Stilmonde)...
fromLa Catedralby Agustín Barrios Mangoré. She recorded‘Clair de Lune’by Claude Debussy in the legendary EastWest Studios in Los Angeles and released the single later that year. Her interpretations of these works have been praised for her sensitivity and deep understanding of their emotional ...
music. His major prose work is his book on Claude Debussy (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1962). He also made numerous analyses of works in the standard repertoire from J. S. Bach to Honegger, some of which he used in his teaching. His few pupils included the British composer Bill ...
Claude Debussy (born in 1862) and Maurice Ravel (born in 1875). As such, Schmitt was very much part of themilieuin which these other composers lived and operated — yet he would outlive both men by decades while continuing to compose music up until the final year of his life (1958). ...
from such prominent figures in the arts as Claude Monet and Claude Debussy, Rodin repaid the money he earned and moved the sculpture to his own private garden. He never completed another public commission. Many critics now consider the Balzac monument one of the greatest sculptures of all time...
Jobim's roots were always planted firmly in jazz; the records of Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Barney Kessel and other West Coast jazz musicians made an enormous impact upon him in the 1950s. But he also claimed that the French impressionist composer Claude Debussy had a decisive influence upon...