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Claude Debussy
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The French impressionist composer Claude Debussy linked the romantic era with the twentieth century. ... The most important characteristic of Debussy’s music is its visual power-images and scenes hidden within the music, never conveyed directly, but always colored by the artist’s imagination. ... Regardless of how one interprets Debussy’s music, it undeniably has a subtle and magical power over the imagination.
Achille Claude Debussy was born on August 22, in 1862 in Saint Germain-en-Laye, a small town near Paris. ... In 1873 at the age of 10, Debussy entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied piano with Antoine Francois Marmontel and composition with Ernest Guiraud. ...
In his late teens, Debussy wrote for the piano as no one before him had ever dreamed of: Sometimes the notes were bunched together, while other times they were laced at the ends of the keyboard; and pedals were used to make notes and harmonies shift and blend. ... By the time he was 18, during his summer vacations, the young Debussy was much in demand as a pianist at fashionable gatherings. ...
During his stays in Russia, Debussy lifelong interest in Russian music took root.
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Title: Claude Debussy
Words: 907
Rating: None
Pages: 3.6
submitted by: awaltjer
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