Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...

‘Clair de lune’, meaning moonlight, was written by the Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy. Here’s everything you need to know about this piano masterpiece Claude Debussy started writing the ...

On last Sunday's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Classical Music, Catherine Bott asks 'What is impressionism in music?' Here's the remarkable story of the neglected, and possibly first, ...

In the western suburbs of Paris 150 years ago today, a boy was born to an unassuming couple, proprietors of a china shop who had no great taste for music. But that little boy felt otherwise, and grew ...

In 1889, Achille-Claude Debussy, then in his mid-20s, was one of 30 million people to walk through the iron arches of the newly completed Eiffel Tower. Throughout that year, the arches served as the ...

While staying at a French seaside resort in the spring of 1889, the young Claude Debussy was at a musical crossroads. Like so many of his contemporaries, the young iconoclast Debussy was an acolyte of ...

Composed about 1893, Sérénade grotesque was originally entitled just Sérénade in the autograph. Admitting the influence of Chabrier's Bourée fantasque , written two years earlier, Ravel would return ...

Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats in time. As it coalesces, bar by bar, it appears to be improvising itself into being—which ...

SO MUCH has been said and written about Debussy that there would appear to be nothing to add that is not already known. There was a time, and it seems not so long ago, when this name aroused hot ...

March 25 th: It’s the Deathiversary of Claude Debussy today, one of the most influential and important composers of the last 100+ years, whose influence is still very much felt. Debussy, probably even ...