22 1862 in Saint Germain Germain en Laye Died March 25 1918 in Paris Best known for Embracing nontraditional scales and tonal structures one of the most highly regarded composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries ID: 803703
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Slide2Born: August 22, 1862 in Saint-Germain Germain-en-Laye
Died: March
25, 1918 in ParisBest known for:Embracing nontraditional scales and tonal structuresone of the most highly regarded composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries He is seen as the founder of musical impressionism.
CLAUDE
DEBUSSY
Slide3Born to Manuel and Victorine Debussy Grew up in a poor family
The
oldest of five childrenWas christened at age 2Started piano lessons at age 7He was home schooledEntered Paris Conservatory at age 11
Plays his first concert at age 14
CHILDHOOD
Slide4He studied at the Paris Conservatoire for 11 years. While there he studied; ____________________________________________________________________
Composition with Ernest Guirand
Music history/theory with Louis-Albert and Bourgault-DucoudrayHarmony with Emile DurandPiano with Antoine Francois Marmontel
Organ with Cesar Franck
Solfege with Albert Lavignac
Other opportunities he had to study music and work on his talent;
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Was
an accompanist for Nadezhda von Meck
Summers of 1880, 1881, and 1882 accompanied Patrons Pvotr Ilvich Tchaikovsky and Nadezhda von Meck as they traveled in Europe and Russia Harmony with Emile DurandHe received a scholarship to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, which included a four-year residence at the ,Villa Medici, French Academy in Rome (1885-1887)Becomes a piano accompanist for Madame Moreau-Sainti's singing class for 4 years
Education
Slide5In 1876 he had his first appearance at a public concert (Chauny). He accompanied the singer Léontine Mendès with operatic extracts and instrumental pieces. He did many performances during his life but composing was his passion.
(Debussy performances)
Performances
Slide6Claude Debussy published many small pieces, but his major success came when he released his opera Pelleas et Melisande in 1902. Here are some of the compositions that he did.
1879: First
compositions : Madrid, princesse des Espagnes and Ballade à la lune1880: Trio en sol majeur for piano, violin and cello, for Madame von Meck's small
ensemble which he formed with Pachulsky
(violin) and Danilchenko (cello).
1881: a dozen songs for Marie Vasnier, among them Caprice, Aimons-nous et dormons, Les
Baisers
, Rondel chinois, Jane, La fille aux cheveux de lin, Fleur des blés. Triolet à Philis and Souhait, songs on poems by Théodore de Banville, and Diane, overture for piano duet.compositions
Slide7Clair
de Lune
(live performance of Clare de
lune
)
Composed in 1882 based off the poem Clair de Lune, by the French
poet Paul Verlaine, Debussy wrote this romantic piece for a piano solo. It has been done many different ways today with orchestra. It was first published in 1926 – Paris:
La Revue Musicale
, in musical supplement to the May
issue.This piece is “pure'' music where the meaning is the music itself and nothing else
Slide8Compositions continued1882: Debussy completes Fantoches on a poem by Paul Verlaine in the latter's
Fêtes
galantes His first published work: Nuit d'étoiles on a poem by Banville, published by Société artistique d'édition d'estampes et de
musique
(E. Bulla). En Sourdine (1st version) and
Mandoline
on poems by Verlaine.1912: The last orchestral work by Debussy, Ballet Jeux
written for
Sergei Diaghily’s Ballets Russes, contains some of his strangest harmonies and textures in a form that moves freely over its own field of motivic connection1915: Two last volumes of works for the piano, the Etudes.
Slide9Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
(listen)
Known
in English as Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, this is a symphonic poem for orchestra.
Composition
was inspired by the poem Lspres-midi dun faune by
Stephane
Mallarme, and later formed the basis for the ballet Afternoon of a Faun.
It was first performed in Paris December of 1894This is one of the most famous of Debussy’s work and considered a turning point in the history of music. The work is scored for 3 flutes, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 harps, 2crotales and strings. The work is called prelude as he intended to write a suite of three movements but the last two were never composed.
Slide10Living his lifeAt the age of 18 he began an eight-year affair with Blanche Vasnier, wife of a Parisian lawyer
.
During that time he also had an affair with the singer Therese Roger, to whom he was briefly engaged.He left Dupont for her friend Rosalie ('Lilly') Texier, a fashion model whom he married in 1899 and divorced in 1904 after starting an afair with Emma Bardac.
In 1905
Debussy and Bardac (now pregnant) fled to
England1905 couple returned to Paris where he spent rest of his life
1905 their daughter Claude-Emma was born
Married to Emma
Bardac
in 1908In 1918 Claude Debussy died from the effects of colon cancer. Debussy wrote of his desire to follow his own way, saying, "I am sure the Institute would not approve, for, naturally it regards the path which it ordains as the only right one. But there is no help for it! I am too enamored of my freedom, too fond of my own ideas!”
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: New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians2: The life of Debussy (Roger Nicholas)
3
: Debussy: The Quiet Revolutionary (Victor
Ledere
)4:
Claude
Debussy (David
J. Code)5: YouTube video’s and websiteSources: