Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy, born on August 22, 1862, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and died on March 25, 1918, in Paris's 16th arrondissement, was a French composer.

By laying the foundation for modern music in 1894 with Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune, Debussy immediately placed his work under the seal of musical avant-garde. He was briefly a Wagnerian in 1889, then an anti-conformist for the rest of his life, rejecting all aesthetic academicism. With La Mer, he renewed the symphonic form; with Jeux, he brought ballet music into a prophetic modernism; with Pelléas et Mélisande, French opera broke out of the rut of traditional lyric drama, while his string quartet brought inspired impressionist accents to chamber music.

A significant part of his work is for the piano (the most extensive in French music along with that of Gabriel Fauré)[3] and uses a particularly rich and evocative sound palette.

Claude Debussy leaves behind the image of an original and profound creator of music imbued with a spirit of freedom. His impact on the history of music was decisive. For André Boucourechliev, he embodied the true musical revolution of the twentieth century.