Claude Debussy

Born: August 22, 1862 - Died: March 25, 1918 (55 years)

Sain-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France

(Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande. Debussy's orchestral works include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), Nocturnes (1897–1899) and Images (1905–1912). His music was to a considerable extent a reaction against Wagner and the German musical tradition. He regarded the classical symphony as obsolete and sought an alternative in his "symphonic sketches", La mer (1903–1905). His piano works include two books of Préludes and two of Études. Throughout his career he wrote mélodies based on a wide variety of poetry, including his own. He was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poetic movement of the later 19th century. A small number of works, including the early La Damoiselle élue and the late Le Martyre de saint Sébastien have important parts for chorus. In his final years, he focused on chamber music, completing three of six planned sonatas for different combinations of instruments. With early influences including Russian and far-eastern music, Debussy developed his own style of harmony and orchestral colouring, derided – and unsuccessfully resisted – by much of the musical establishment of the day.

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Daniele Gatti & Gautier Capuçon Wagner, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy

Claude Debussy

Daniele Gatti & Gautier Capuçon Wagner, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy

Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano Piano Duo

Elements Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with Damien Jalet and Marina Abramovic

Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom

Cristian Măcelaru & Julia Fischer - Brahms, Debussy and Barraine

Famous Orchestras - The world's finest orchestras : The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Sunset Sonatina

Palácio das Memórias

The Colors Within

Liubov Nosova conducts the Paris Mozart Orchestra @ La Maestra 2024

Bar Avni conducts the Paris Mozart Orchestra @ La Maestra 2024

Riccardo Minasi With Emmanuel Pahud

Keys to the Heart

Made in the Cell

Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel With Yuja Wang and the Orchestre de Paris

Compagnie Hervé Koubi @ Sur Mesure

Aftersun

Olivier Messiaen: The Turangalîla-Symphonie Orchestre de Paris

The Aura

Pasamontaña Quemado

Watching the Sun Rise

Radio France Choir and Orchestra Poulenc, Wagner, Debussy & Fauré

John Eliot Gardiner Conducts Chabrier, Stravinsky and Debussy With Isabelle Faust

Grand Bal Symphonique With the Orchestre Nationale de France

Myst

Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2

four scenes from a village

Alice Sara Ott Live in Yellow Lounge: Nightfall

A New View of the Moon

Debussy: Suite Bergamasque

a reflection of one's mind

Pelléas et Mélisande

Santiago's Theorem

Pelleas et Melisande

Scandal! Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano

Andrea Bacchetti in Concert

The Third Eye

Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili

Proust ou les Intermittences du cœur

Pelléas et Mélisande

Nightcap

The Curve

Pęd – Mouvement

Arabeska G-dur

Światło Księżyca

Buccaneer Soul

Le Hibou et la baleine, Nicolas Bouvier

Cage

The Cimmerian Hermit

Debussy, Images pour orchestre

Pelléas et Mélisande

Pávie pierko

The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian

Perfect Peri

Silent Bruges

Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet: Tribute to Nijinsky

Allegro non troppo

Electronic Moon No. 2

Syrinx

Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 8: Franck, Sibelius, Debussy and Rossini

Romance sin palabras

Clair de Lune

La Mode rêvée

Limite

Wedding and Honeymoon, 1930

Metamorphosis: La vie misérable

The Eye and The Light

Szczęście

Hudební perličky Pavla Šporcla

This is Opera

Your Lie in April