From November 23, 2024, the Maison de Claude Debussy, the famous French composer, will once again open its doors in the heart ...

Estampes - Pagodes by Claude Debussy and Peace Piece by Bill Evans. This short film is from the BBC series, Howard Goodall's Story of Music. Ask your students to select a World Music style ...

This first comprehensive guide to Debussy's only completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande was written by the leading authorities on French music of the period. As a background to the opera, the ...

His music is characterised by ever-declining ... amongst which the violin and piano sonata, were signed "Claude Debussy, musicien français". Seeking to pay homage to his illustrious compatriots ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Stravinsky's influence on Debussy in 1910-13 is demonstrated here in the many modernistic features of such works as the Preludes Book II, ...

The composer Claude Debussy was born in St GermainenLaye a few miles outside Paris in 1862 While a pupil at the Conservatoire he composed music that did not conform to the theory of the times He ...

Claude Debussy's 'Pelléas et Mélisande,' in the ... Although a major opera by a composer of lush, multicolored orchestral music, with a libretto by the important Belgian symbolist writer Maurice ...

He encouraged Debussy to write music that was not hidebound by academic tradition – ‘Break the rules, defy convention’ could have been his credo – and to find inspiration in the paintings of Claude ...