CLAUDE-ACHILLE DEBUSSY

 [really named Achille-Claude]

 (1862-1918)

 French composer, also noted as critic; born near Paris, worked and died in Paris; visited Russia 1881.
 

 

Worked out new outlook on harmony and musical structure of which the main impressionism reveals its kinship with contemporary visual art.
 
He has affinity also with such poets as Verlaine and Baudelaire, whom he set.

Was first pro-then anti-Wagner; his opera PELLEAS AND MELISANDE is unlike any predecessor though seemingly indebted to Mussorgsky for cultivation of natural speech inflections.

Achieved first marked success with THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, 1894; had already composed cantata THE BLESSED DAMOZEL.  also wrote IBERIA, THE SEA, NOCTURNES, and other works for orchestra; 2 books of piano preludes (with picturesque titles) and other piano works including SUITE BERGAMASQUE and CHILDREN'S CORNER; string quartet, violin sonata, cello sonata; music to KING LEAR and THE MARTYRDOM OF ST SEBASTIAN.

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