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 was tired of writing the same type of music in the 1890s. The grand Romantics -- Camille Saint-Saens, Antonin Dvorak, Giacomo Puccini and Guiseppe Verdi -- were still the style.

Associate Professor Piano Division, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney French composer Claude Debussy’s best-loved piano piece, Clair de Lune, has entered popular consciousness ...

Claude Debussy's Painterly Preludes The subtle, ... static texture of bell-like tones overlapped and gradually decaying — is only one characteristic of a complex style. ...

Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. ... Debussy adopted a decorous, formally controlled style that looked back to the aristocratic poise of the French Baroque.

The third movement of his Suite Bergamasque (composed in 1890), "Clair de lune" epitomizes the understated, melancholic beauty of Debussy's style. 2. 'Arabesque No. 1' ...

More proof, as if it were needed, that Claude Debussy was the master of creating dream-like atmospheres in his piano music. More proof, as if it were needed, ... However, the young Debussy had not ...

In 1889, Achille-Claude Debussy, then in his mid-20s, ... His style, which Walsh characterizes as “without ideology and without doctrine,” belongs to no particular tradition.

On Sunday, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet returned to Orchestra Hall with an invitation to wade in a single great work: Claude Debussy’s Préludes. Considering the Préludes a “work” is ...