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Claude Debussy

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1997 - The Best of Debussy

1990 - 12 Etudes

1987 - Clarinet Concerto no. 1 and other works

1987 - Pelléas et Mélisande (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. conduc

1987 - La mer / Nocturnes / Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (T

1987 - A Debussy Collection (feat. piano: Kathryn Stott)

1986 - Clair De Lune: Music of Debussy (James Galway)

1986 - Klavierwerke: Clair de Lune

1986 - String Quartets

1986 - Streichquartette

1986 - Debussy: String Quartet in G minor / Ravel: String Quartet i

1985 - La Mer / Prélude à l'après-midi d'une faune / Jeux

1985 - Chamber Music

1985 - Debussy: The Complete Works for Piano (feat. piano: Jacques

1985 - Preludes Books 1 & 2 / Reflets dans l'eau / Estampes (feat.

1985 - Debussy: Piano Works (feat. piano: Alexis Weissenberg)

1984 - La Mer / Trois Nocturnes (London Symphony Orchestra feat. co

1984 - Préludes, Volume 1 (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli)

1984 - Préludes Premier Livre (feat. piano: Jacques Rouvier)

1982 - La boîte à joujoux, 6 épigraphes antiques, Sarabande (Bas

1982 - La Mer / Trois Nocturnes (Boston Symphony Orchestra feat. co

1979 - Images pour orchestre, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

1975 - Preludes - Book 1 (Livia Rev, Piano)

1974 - Debussy: Complete Orchestral Works III

1969 - La Mer / Nocturnes / Clair de Lune / March Écossaise (L' Or

1955 - Debussy: Preludes Book I and II

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1862

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(Achille) Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande.
Debussy's orchestral works include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894), Nocturnes (1897–1899) and Images (1905–1912). His music was to a considerable extent a reaction against Wagner and the German musical tradition. He regarded the classical symphony as obsolete and sought an alternative in his "symphonic sketches", La mer (1903–1905). His piano works include two books of Préludes and two of Études. Throughout his career he wrote mélodies based on a wide variety of poetry, including his own. He was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poetic movement of the later 19th century. A small number of works, including the early La Damoiselle élue and the late Le Martyre de saint Sébastien have important parts for chorus. In his final years, he focused on chamber music, completing three of six planned sonatas for different combinations of instruments.
With early influences including Russian and far-eastern music, Debussy developed his own style of harmony and orchestral colouring, derided – and unsuccessfully resisted – by much of the musical establishment of the day. His works have strongly influenced a wide range of composers including Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin, and the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. Debussy died from cancer at his home in Paris at the age of 55 after a composing career of a little more than 30 years.