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1. Claude Debussy : biographie - Médiathèque de l'Ircam © 2005
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- Claude Debussy: biographie du compositeur, catalogue des oeuvres, disques, sites internet. ...
2. Debussy
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- Claude Achille Debussy (1862 - 1918).
- Debussy's parents took little interest in any of their children and later the composser refered to his father as a layabout. ... Debussy would visit on holidays, with lessons later being given by a Chopin disciple, Madame Maute in Paris. ...
- Debussy spent his later years playing and conducting in European cities, substituting work as a music critic. Debussy's many works include 'La Mer' (1903). The colouristic use of unresolving harmony and the use of sonority as a structural element in composition are the most striking and influential aspects of Debussy's mature style. ...
3. Claude Debussy. DEBUSSY: Biography, works, photos.. Debussy. - Claude Debussy
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- BIOGRAPHY: "Achille - Claude Debussy is one of the most influential composers who creates a unique and forward-looking style of innovative technical finish and poetic appeal. ... Debussy also considered the most important composer of piano music since Frédéric Chopin. " Click here for Claude Debussy biogpraphy.
- WORKS: "Debussy wrote Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Other most respectful Debussy's works. " Click here for list of all Debussy works. ... SHOP: "Buy a CD, or a book about Claude Debussy". ...
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4. Debussy: Complete Chamber Music (DE 3167)
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- Date Archive November 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 Debussy: Complete Chamber Music.
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- Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp, 1915, I. ...
- It would be hard to find a more eloquent appraisal by one composer of another than the one by Virgil Thomson of Claude Debussy. "Historically viewed," Thomson wrote in 1950, "Debussy is the summit toward which, during the two centuries since Rameau's death, French music has risen and from which, at least for the present, it seems to decline. ...
- Robert Schmidt (1889-1949), who studied with Debussy at the Conservatoire and knew him well, gives a vivid glimpse of the composer's complex personality: "He was often anxious and possessed by a curious sense of guilt. ...
- The works on this three-disc set are drawn from virtually the entire span of Debussy's composing life, starting with the 1880 Piano Trio, written at the age of 18, and ending with his last work, the Violin Sonata of 1917, which was the final piece he performed in public. ...
5. The Cambridge Companion to Debussy - Cambridge University Press
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- The Cambridge Companion to Debussy.
- Often considered the father of twentiethcentury music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wideranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. ... His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.
- Debussy the man Robert Orledge; 2. Debussy’s Parisian affiliations Barbara Kelly; 3. Debussy as musician and critic Deirdre Donnellon; Part II. ... Debussy on stage David Grayson; 5. The prosaic Debussy Roger Nichol; 6. Debussy and expression Nigel Simeone; 7. Exploring the erotic in Debussy’s music Julie McQuinn; 8. Debussy and nature Caroline Potter; Part III. ... Debussy’s tonality: a formal perspective Boyd Pomeroy; 10. The Debussy sound: colour, texture, gesture Mark deVoto; 11. Music’s inner dance: Debussy’s form, pacing and complexity Richard Parks; 12.
6. Island of Freedom - Claude Debussy
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- Debussy, Claude - The Musical Impressions.
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- Achille Claude Debussy was the creator and leading exponent of French musical impressionism. Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and studied at the Paris Conservatoire, which he entered at the age of 10. ... In 1879, as private musician to Nadejda von Meck, the patron of Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Debussy traveled to Florence, Italy; Venice, Italy; Vienna, Austria; and Moscow. While in Russia Debussy became acquainted with the works of such Russian composers as Tchaikovsky, Aleksandr Borodin, Mily Balakirev, and Modest Mussorgsky and with Russian folk and Romani (Gypsy) music. Debussy won the coveted Grand Prix de Rome in 1884 for his cantata L'enfant prodigue (The Prodigal Son). ...
- From 1887 on, Debussy confined his activity to composition, rarely appearing in public as a performer. ... Their influence is felt in Debussy's first important orchestral work, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1892-94), inspired by Mallarmé's poem, L'Apres-midi d'un faune. This work established the style of impressionist music and initiated Debussy's most productive period, which lasted nearly 20 years. ... Debussy's one completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, based on the play of the same name by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck, was produced in 1902. It earned Debussy widespread fame for the extent to which his score retained and enhanced the abstract, dreamlike quality of Maeterlinck's play and for his treatment of the melody, which virtually duplicates the rhythm of natural speech. ...
- In 1910 Debussy developed cancer, which sapped his strength during his last years. ...
7. SoundStage! Jacques Loussier Trio - Plays Debussy
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- Jacques Loussier Trio - Plays Debussy.
- Listen to Jacques Loussiers Plays Debussy for the first time and you might likewise find yourself stuck inside a bottle with no way out. ...
- Debussys aural language, as in his famous "Clair de lune" presented here, is literally as ephemeral as moonlight. ... Debussy, the impressionist tone-painter, lingers somewhere in the ether of imagination. ... This hidden beat is the very antithesis of the temporal fluctuation of rubato, those flexible hesitations and rushes in the linear fabric of time that are in defiance of the orderly regularity of jazz rhythms but are essential to Debussys inner-space zero gravity.
- Do you begin to appreciate the opening image? How does the French master of jazz-Bach propose to translate Debussys transcendental magic into the earthiness of jazz without causing poor Claude to turn over in his grave and weep? To drive home this potential nail into Debussys bottle-coffin even further, think of his Polish rival, Chopin, whom we shall briefly call Monsieur Rubatissimo to make our point. ... After all, they managed to do so quite splendidly with their Debussy.
- To perceive the light here merely requires overcoming an inherent challenge that took me a day to contemplate: You must categorically leave behind any easy familiarity with Debussys originals. ... Not here though! You must bury and forget the historic Debussy. ...
- Its patently apparent that the Loussier struggled valiantly with the inherent imperative of style -- contemplating how best to approach Debussy successfully. ...
- In closing, the Jacques Loussier Trios Debussy is not easy listening fare -- Mon Dieu, do we really need any more fluff? Rather, this is a grand event that makes certain requirements that arent in the least insurmountable or even difficult. ... Youll find yourself marveling at the multiple dimensions of achievement of Plays Debussy. ...
8. Astrocartography of Claude Debussy's Least-aspected Pluto
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- astrocartography astrology horoscope Claude Debussy chart symbolism planets Pluto biography of Claude Debussy astrocartographer Robert Couteau .
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- French composer Claude Debussy was born in St. ... Debussy’s Primary Pluto is also involved in a narrowly focused Transcendental Midpoint-Field over Europe: both his Secondary Sun and Tertiary Mercury rise over western Italy and central Germany. ...
- When Debussy was only seventeen years old he commenced his travels through Europe as the “musical companion” of Mme von Meck, the latter a friend of Tchaikovsky (1879). ...
- Debussy’s early work was influenced by Richard Wagner, whose native land of Germany is also framed within Dubussy’s narrowly focused Transcendental Midpoint-Field. ... Debussy’s intensely “individual” (Secondary Sun) creations “transformed” (Primary Pluto) musical composition in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth century. ...
- Horoscope of Claude Debussy .
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9. Poetic Debussy , 1878822330
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- The Poetic Debussy .
- This completely revised second edition of The Poetic Debussy contains the most recent discoveries in the composer's oeuvre, including a number of hitherto unknown songs. The texts of all Debussy's songs, both in the original French and with revised English translations on the facing page, are collected in chronological order, with notes and location of sources. In addition, Margaret Cobb has brought together a fascinating selection of Debussy's letters which have poetic refences, and has updated the notes on those twenty-six compositions based on or inspired by literary texts. This work will prove an invaluable aid to performers, scholars and students, as it contains the texts, with translations, of the full output of Debussy's songs, describes his works derived from literary sources, and includes important background material. ...
- `A highly original anthology of Debussy's own writings through which Margaret Cobb has traced the truly poetic thread in his vocabulary and thought- she more than most, has devoted herself to Debussy and has earned her qualifications as an expert. ...
- `A valuable contribution to Debussy studies. Anyone seriously studying the songs of Debussy will have to deal with this valuable book. ...
10. Debussy in Jersey
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- Debussy in Jersey.
- Raoul Dufy, Hommage à Debussy (1952).
- Debussy's Life - a brief synopsis.
- Debussy's "Jersey" Music, 1904.
11. Essentials of Music - Composers
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- Debussy's music is often associated with the contemporary impressionist movement in painting, and his approach shares some characteristics of this style. ...
- "The primary aim of French music," Claude Debussy wrote in 1904, "is to give pleasure. " Debussy, more than anything, was interested in the sensuous quality of music. ... He also was a passionate champion of a purely French style, and he proudly referred to himself as "Claude Debussy, musicien français. ...
- Debussy was educated at the Paris Conservatory, and in 1885 he won the coveted Prix de Rome. His period in Rome, however, was not pleasant for Debussy and he longed to return to Paris. ...
- As a student and a young composer, Debussy was also an ardent Wagnerite, seeing in the German composer the future of music, specifically musical drama. ... The other strong influences on Debussy at this time were the symbolist and decadent movements in poetry, with their concern for sound and abstract meaning. ...
- Debussy's interest in the exquisite and sensual also led him to an appreciation of the music of other cultures, and his use of various scales beyond the traditional major and minor ones shows the influence of Oriental and Russian music. ...
- Late in his life, Debussy turned his interests to abstract forms, producing three remarkable sonatas (he had originally conceived of six for various instruments, with the final one planned for all the instruments of the previous five). In these works, Debussy's rich melodic and harmonic language found a new and intriguing expression. ...
12. debussy
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- ROY HOWAT'S DEBUSSY PUBLICATIONS.
- Debussy in proportion. ...
- This book traces the sophisticated and intricate patterns of symmetry and Golden Section that underlie the forms of Debussy's major works, including structures based on the associated Fibonacci and Lucas number sequences.
- "Roy Howat's book represents the most important advance in unravelling the mysteries of Debussy's music that there has ever been. ...
- uvres Complètes de Claude Debussy (Complete Debussy Edition, published by Durand, Paris. ...
- "Howat's editorial work throughout is meticulous in the extreme As Howat is equally renowned as an interpreter with an encyclopædic knowledge of the minutiae of Debussy's piano music and as a musicologist/analyst, he represents an ideal editor for this series. ...
- Other Debussy Urtexts by Roy Howat:.
- Etude retrouvée for piano (different version of the Etude “Pour les arpèges composés”, discovered and realized by Roy Howat, with facsimile of Debussy's ms). ...
- Claude Debussy, Preludes Book 1. ...
- Claude Debussy, Etudes pour le piano. ... (Publications du Centre de Documentation Claude Debussy, Tome 5. ...
- For Roy Howat's Debussy CD series on Tall Poppies, see Recordings.
- Interesting Debussy links:.
- It would probably have delighted Debussy that one of the most informative Debussy websites is by NASA scientist Steve Bryson, including a useful article by Debussy's colleague Maurice Dumesnil and a link to pianist Andrew Le's pictures of the Debussy Museum at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
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