Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was a French composer whose music helped reshape harmony, color, and form at the turn of the 20th century. His major works include Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, La mer, Clair de lune, Images, and Pelléas et Mélisande. Debussy’s language influenced modern orchestration, piano writing, and the wider move away from traditional tonal resolution.

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8 articles related to Claude Debussy:

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  PIANO

  Estampes: the world cultures of Debussy's imagination

  Estampes, conceived as a three-piece piano suite by the French Impressionist Claude Debussy, is rightfully recognized as...
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  PIANO

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

  Deux arabesques are two piano pieces written by Claude Debussy in the late 1880s and are now considered to be one of the...
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  PIANO

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

  La fille aux cheveux de lin or The Girl with the Flaxen Hair is the best-known piano prelude by the French impressionist...
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  PIANO

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

  Suite bergamasque is one of the best-known piano works of the French impressionist Claude Debussy written in 1890 and... 1 comment
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  Violin

  Ernest Chausson as the first promoter of nascent impressionism

  Ernest Chausson was a composer who, despite his rather humble body of work, still played a crucial role in the history...
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  SYNTHESIZER

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

  Japanese composer Isao Tomita was one of the first to explore analog synthesizers in search for new sounds that would...
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  PIANO

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

  The term ambient music was introduced in the 1970s by the famous English experimenter Brian Eno who used newly invented...
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  ORCHESTRA

  Reverie: cello reimagining of Claude Debussy by Julian Lloyd Webber

  Reverie is one of the first works written by Debussy for piano. Even at this early stage of his career, with the style...