Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy was a French composer whose works fueled the innovative power in the music of the 20th century. He generated a very original system of harmony and musical structure that, in many respects, expressed the ideas to which the impressionist and symbolist painters and writers of his time aspired.



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7 articles related to Claude Debussy:

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  PIANO

  Two Arabesques: the fledgling impressionism of Debussy's early work

  France, Romantic
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  PIANO

  La fille aux cheveux de lin: Parnassian poem behind Debussy's most recorded piece

  France, Prelude, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Suite bergamasque: did Debussy record his best-known piano piece?

  France, Suite, Romantic 1 comment
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  Violin

  Ernest Chausson as the first promoter of nascent impressionism

  France, Symphonic poem, Romantic
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  SYNTHESIZER

  The analog synthesizers of Isao Tomita programming fresh sound for all-time classics

  Japan, Ambient, Concerto, Suite, 20st Century Classical, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
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  PIANO

  Gymnopédies: the ambient genre predicted by piano gems of late Romanticism

  England, France, Ambient, Romantic, 20st Century Classical
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  ORCHESTRA

  Reverie: cello reimagining of Claude Debussy by Julian Lloyd Webber

  England, France, Cello Сoncerto, 20st Century Classical