Intermède was only discovered in 2001 in a hand-written copy made by Maurice Dumesnil, a student of Debussy and a Debussy scholar. It is closely related to the Scherzo-Intermezzo from Debussy's 1880 ...
On last Sunday's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Classical Music, Catherine Bott asks 'What is impressionism in music?' Here's the remarkable story of the neglected, and possibly first, ...
‘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 ...
Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...
Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...
Only around 20 people were present for Debussy’s burial at Père Lachaise Cemetery on March 28, 1918. His death three nights earlier had come during the final German assault on Paris of the first world ...
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 the ...
Claude Debussy was slow to develop as a composer for the piano, despite the fact that it was his instrument of choice. But the piano works he did write are extraordinarily important. In their ...
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Pelléas et Mélisande review – luminous semi-staging but Debussy’s elusive opera keeps its secrets
This year’s Aldeburgh festival opened with a stripped-back concert staging by Rory Kinnear with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra ...
He created a new world of ravishing instrumental colour and constantly shifting sensations and images. He brought new breath to the art of music, said Boulez. Did modern music start with Debussy? It ...
Debussy dedicated his 1908 cycle Children's Corner to his five-year old daughter, writing in his dedication: "To my beloved little Chouchou, with the tender excuses of her father for that which ...
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