Claude Debussy was tired of writing the same type of music in the 1890s. The grand Romantics -- Camille Saint-Saens, Antonin Dvorak, Giacomo Puccini and Guiseppe Verdi -- were still the style. Debussy ...
Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...
Presidio Chapel Sunday Concerts presents Junko Kasahara in French Impressionism - music for piano by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, at the historic Presidio Chapel ...
Walsh (Stravinsky) uses the musical compositions of French composer Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918) as a framework to tell the story of his short life in this richly descriptive biography. Debussy ...
IT HAS been said — and is, I fear, something of an aphorism — that two careers may run in a parallel direction; then suddenly, without premonition or intent, may swerve to meet each other, though the ...