Claude Debussy
(Achille) Claude Debussy 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. 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.
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Filme (68)
Daniele Gatti & Gautier Capuçon Wagner, Saint-Saëns, and Debussy
2026 · Original Music Composer
Alice Sara Ott & Francesco Tristano Piano Duo
2025 · Original Music Composer
Elements Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with Damien Jalet and Marina Abramovic
2025 · Original Music Composer
Yuja Wang x David Hockney London Lightroom
2025 · Original Music Composer
Cristian Măcelaru & Julia Fischer - Brahms, Debussy and Barraine
2025 · Original Music Composer
Sunset Sonatina
2024 · Music
Palácio das Memórias
2024 · Original Music Composer
The Colors Within
2024 · Music
Liubov Nosova conducts the Paris Mozart Orchestra @ La Maestra 2024
2024 · Original Music Composer
Bar Avni conducts the Paris Mozart Orchestra @ La Maestra 2024
2024 · Original Music Composer
Riccardo Minasi With Emmanuel Pahud
2024 · Original Music Composer
La clave del corazón
2023 · Music
Made in the Cell
2023 · Music
Klaus Mäkelä conducts Ravel With Yuja Wang and the Orchestre de Paris
2023 · Original Music Composer
Compagnie Hervé Koubi @ Sur Mesure
2023 · Original Music Composer
Aftersun
2022 · Music
Olivier Messiaen: The Turangalîla-Symphonie Orchestre de Paris
2022 · Original Music Composer
The Aura
2021 · Music
Pasamontaña Quemado
2021 · Music
Watching the Sun Rise
2021 · Music
Radio France Choir and Orchestra Poulenc, Wagner, Debussy & Fauré
2021 · Original Music Composer
John Eliot Gardiner Conducts Chabrier, Stravinsky and Debussy With Isabelle Faust
2021 · Original Music Composer
Grand Bal Symphonique With the Orchestre Nationale de France
2021 · Original Music Composer
Myst
2019 · Music
Paris Opera Ballet: Tribute to Jerome Robbins 2
2018 · Original Music Composer
four scenes from a village
2018 · Music
Alice Sara Ott Live in Yellow Lounge: Nightfall
2018 · Music
A New View of the Moon
2018 · Music
Pelléas et Mélisande - Wiener Staatsoper
2017 · Original Music Composer
Debussy: Suite Bergamasque
2017 · Original Music Composer
a reflection of one's mind
2016 · Music
Pelléas et Mélisande - Opernhaus Zürich
2016 · Original Music Composer
Santiago's Theorem
2016 · Music
Pelleas et Melisande
2015 · Writer
Scandal! Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano
2015 · Music
Andrea Bacchetti in Concert
2015 · Original Music Composer
The Third Eye
2014 · Musical
Mind in the Wilderness: Khatia Buniatishvili
2013 · Music
Proust ou les Intermittences du cœur
2007 · Music
Pelléas et Mélisande
2004 · Music
Süßes Gift
2000 · Additional Music
The Curve
1999 · Music
Momentum – Mouvement
1996 · Music
Arabesque in G Major
1994 · Music
Clair de lune
1993 · Music
Buccaneer Soul
1993 · Original Music Composer
Le Hibou et la baleine, Nicolas Bouvier
1993 · Musician
Cage
1993 · Music
The Cimmerian Hermit
1992 · Original Music Composer
Debussy, Images pour orchestre
1991 · Original Music Composer
Pelléas et Mélisande
1987 · Original Music Composer
Pávie pierko
1987 · Music
The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
1984 · Original Music Composer
Perfect Peri
1982 · Music
Silent Bruges
1981 · Music
Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet: Tribute to Nijinsky
1980 · Sound
Allegro non troppo
1976 · Music
Electronic Moon No. 2
1972 · Original Music Composer
Syrinx
1965 · Music
Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 8: Franck, Sibelius, Debussy and Rossini
1952 · Original Music Composer
Romance sin palabras
1948 · Original Music Composer
Clair de Lune
1942 · Original Music Composer
La Mode rêvée
1940 · Music
Limite
1931 · Music
Wedding and Honeymoon, 1930
1930 · Music
Metamorphosis: La vie misérable
· Sound
The Eye and The Light
· Music
Szczęście
· Music
