‘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 ...
It is 100 years since the death of Claude Debussy in 1918. It may have seemed at the time that the inimitably French, impressionist style he established would prove to be of less importance than 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 ...
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 ...
Flex your piano fingers with these 7 easiest Debussy preludes and piano pieces. Claude Debussy is one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most prominent composers connected with ...
March 25 th: It’s the Deathiversary of Claude Debussy today, one of the most influential and important composers of the last 100+ years, whose influence is still very much felt. Debussy, probably even ...
Since sweeping the board in terms of prizes at the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, the young Polish pianist Rafal Blechacz has, understandably enough, been identified as a Chopin ...
With the sesquicentennial of Claude Debussy's birth coming up fast on Aug. 22, you'd think there would be a small blizzard of new Debussy releases. This year, not so much; maybe it's a sign of the ...