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.

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 ...

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 ...

Claude-Achille Debussy was music’s quietest ... pursue a question often raised but never quite nailed down: was Debussy an impressionist, who did for music what Monet and Pissarro did for ...

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 ...

Tom Service considers whether Claude Debussy was an impressionist or not, arguing that he was instead a modernist, an abstract composer and also a creator of nightmares. Show more Tom Service ...

Pianist Pierre Nicolas Colombat spoke Monday evening at College of Fine Arts about the characteristics of Claude Debussy and ... to the podium to give a lecture on Debussy’s controversial status as a ...

Despite being considered the most important composer in the impressionist movement, Claude Debussy was not fond of the label. "I am trying to do something different, an effect of reality ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

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 ...