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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

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Born: 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

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Born 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

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He 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

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In 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

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Claude 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

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Clair

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

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Compositions 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.

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Prelude 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.

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Living his lifeAt the age of 18 he began an eight-year affair with Blanche Vasnier, wife of a Parisian lawyer

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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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1

: 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: