biography
| name: |
Debussy, Claude (Achille)
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pronunciation:
[debüsee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1918)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in St Germain-en-Laye, NC France. Educated at the Paris Conservatoire (1873–84), he studied piano under Antoine-François Marmontel, and in 1884 won the Prix de Rome. His early successes were the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), and his piano pieces, Images and Préludes, in which he experimented with novel techniques and effects, producing the pictures in sound which led to his work being described as ‘musical Impressionism’. He extended this new idiom to orchestral music in La Mer (1905, The Sea) and other pieces. |
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