Regarded as one of the quintessential composers of the 20th century, French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) created a brilliant musical style all his own, although, the art and literature of ...

Claude Debussy’s impressionistic evocation of The Sea at different times of day and its interaction with the wind, “La Mer,” is today’s Midday Masterpiece.

If Debussy’s operatic path remained largely blocked, he found new fluency in the production of instrumental scores: the three sets of “Images” for piano and for orchestra, the two books of ...

This was, in fact, the manner of my meeting with Claude Debussy a few years prior to World War I, when this composer’s genius for the creation of new images, new styles, and new techniques was ...

Debussy revolutionized piano music and composed many indispensable works in the instrument's repertoire. Here are his 10 best.

This week On Stage At Curtis features two pieces from 20th Century composers, Eugène Ysaÿe from Belgian and Claude Debussy from France. Pianist Ying Li performed Debussy’s Images, Première série and ...

In 1889, Achille-Claude Debussy, then in his mid-20s, was one of 30 million people to walk through the iron arches of the newly completed Eiffel Tower. Throughout that year, the arches served as ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Culture Minister Rachida Dati visit the renewed Claude Debussy's House, where ...

Debussy stretched the traditional system of keys and tonalities to their limits. Leonard Bernstein, Boulez and many more great musicians have been inspired by Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune. A ...

Visitors to Smith College Museum of Art can explore the “soundscape” of Paris during the lifetime of the French composer Claude Debussy and discover the affinities between Debussy’s music and artistic ...