Claude Debussy, French composer whose works were a seminal force in the music of the 20th century. He developed a highly original system of harmony and musical structure that expressed in many respects the ideals to which the Impressionist and Symbolist
Always interested in contemporary operaticcompositions, Puccini studied the works ofClaude Debussy,Richard Strauss,Arnold Schoenberg, andIgor Stravinsky. From this study emergedIl trittico(The Triptych; New York City, 1918), three stylistically individual one-act operas—the melodramaticIl tabarro(The Cloa...
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.
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Pierre Boulez earned his GRAMMYs primarily conducting the work of renowned 20th century composers such as Bela Bartók, Alban Berg and Claude Debussy. Boulez received the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015. Vladimir Horowitz, 25 The late virtuoso pianis...
while that work’s feeling of “primitive dynamism” is a period feature that is found in much music of the early 20th century. Nor were the discordant harmonies ofThe Rite of Springentirely new in 1913, though Stravinsky was the first to pursueClaude Debussy’s purely sensual approach to ch...
Camille Saint-Saëns,Edward Elgar, andSamuel Barber; the sonatas ofZoltán KodályandClaude Debussy; and theBachianas brasileirasofHeitor Villa-Lobos, for eight cellos and soprano. Outstanding cellists of the 20th and 21st centuries includePablo Casals,Mstislav Rostropovich, andYo-Yo Ma, among ...
whose influence on English music equaled that ofGeorge Frideric Handel. After his death this influence was sometimes held to have had astiflingeffect. Later generations of English composers, enamoured ofRichard Wagner,Claude Debussy, orIgor Stravinsky, revolted against the domination of Mendelssohn and...
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In the early 20th century, some companies manufactured player-piano rolls that, with a fair amount of accuracy, reproduced performances by such distinguished figures as Alfred Cortot,Claude Debussy,Sergey Rachmaninoff,Artur Rubinstein, andGeorge Gershwin. These performances were played on the reproducing...