Claude Debussy was tired of writing the same type ... Debussy didn't like the term impressionism to describe his music. He said, “There is no theory. You merely have to listen.

Here's the remarkable story of the neglected, and possibly first, impressionist composer ... concocted by the brilliant Claude Debussy in 1894 – the Prelude à l’aprés-midi d’une faune. It’s one of the ...

Debussy French composer Claude Debussy hated the label "Impressionism" for his work. But the label stuck. Perhaps it was because of the times and company he kept. His friends included the musician ...

Composers began to incorporate impressionism into their music.The romantic era of Brahms went out the door. And in came French composer Claude Debussy. But the new movement didn’t just stay in ...

Claude Debussy died a century ago ... An academic evaluation accused him of indulging in Impressionism—a label that stuck. Perhaps Debussy’s central insight was about the constricting effect ...

‘Clair de lune’, meaning moonlight, was written by the Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy. Here’s everything you need to know about this piano masterpiece Claude Debussy started writing the ...

In this short film Howard Goodall examines Claude Debussy and the transition away from traditional composition methods. Debussy was influenced by Russian composers such as Modest Mussorgsky ...

This engaging character was Achille-Claude Debussy, who died in 1918 ... others called him an impressionist like Painters Renoir and Monet. The latter title stuck. His work—fastidious, poetic ...