Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussywas a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated with Impressionist music, though he himself disliked the term when applied to his compositions. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in his native France in 1903. Debussy was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and his use of non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed...
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth22 August 1862
law pleasure theory
There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.
dance silence steps
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps?
airplane century
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
sunset sunrise musical
There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
precedent century aeroplanes
The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew.
revolutionary composer debussy
Claude Debussy was a rare phenomenon a composer profoundly and subversively revolutionary...
art reality trying
What I am trying to do is something different an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism , a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner , the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of art.
beautiful people mind
People don't very much like things that are beautiful.. they are so far from their nasty little minds.
dream soul desire
The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.
writing light variation
Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
beautiful hope art
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
people oblivion abandon
It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
someone-you-love one-you-love
To complete a work is just like being present at the death of someone you love.
age diligence automobile
The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.