| rdfs:comment | - When Lois considers looking for work in "Peter Problems", Peter decides that it may give him time to expand his record collection. In an ensuing cutaway, he considers purchasing albums by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy.
- Debussy was born and raised in the French town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and playing the piano at the age of four. His natural gifts caught the eye of Marie Mauté de Fleurville, an expert pianist and student of Chopin, who was far too old for Debussy at the time. She developed his musicianship so that when he was ten, Debussy's playing won him a place at the Paris Conservatoire. Here he spent most of his teen years training to be a professional pianist. While he was clearly technically gifted, Monsieur Claude rebelled against the rigid teaching methods of the academy. Debussy would insist on employing dissonances and intervals that the granddads at the school couldn't take, because they weren't cool like him. Young Claude looked at the old and grey teachers and their even older and greyer w
- A noted trend starter in the history of Classical Music, his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is considered as a turning point of classical music, starting the Impressionist movement in classical music, and in many ways the antecedent of Modern and Contemporary Classical music. Needless to say, he was, and still is a highly important and inspiring figure in classical music. His influence to music is as much as Claude Monet's influence to painting. Modern music historians and critics consider himself as the ultimate example, along with his fellow composer Maurice Ravel, of the Impressionist movement.
- Achille-Claude Debussy (French: [aʃil klod dəbysi]; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated withImpressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. In France, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour 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.
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| abstract | - Debussy was born and raised in the French town of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and playing the piano at the age of four. His natural gifts caught the eye of Marie Mauté de Fleurville, an expert pianist and student of Chopin, who was far too old for Debussy at the time. She developed his musicianship so that when he was ten, Debussy's playing won him a place at the Paris Conservatoire. Here he spent most of his teen years training to be a professional pianist. While he was clearly technically gifted, Monsieur Claude rebelled against the rigid teaching methods of the academy. Debussy would insist on employing dissonances and intervals that the granddads at the school couldn't take, because they weren't cool like him. Young Claude looked at the old and grey teachers and their even older and greyer wives and he knew that he wanted to be nothing like them. Alas, he knew nothing about their hot young mistresses. Debussy felt he was at his coolest and most thrillingly dangerous when he took to the stage and displayed his virtuosity on the piano. Debussy wowed audiences with bravado performances of pieces by Schubert and Beethoven and thrilled his public with his dynamic energy and skilled sight-reading. However, he was always puzzled that after he'd rocked the house with Frédéric Chopin's Allegro de Concert on his badass Steinway, there were no groupies waiting for him outside the stage door. Being the bad boy pianist of the Paris Conservatoire somehow didn't make him the chick magnet that he had hoped. These early performances would have a great impact on Debussy's future work. Debussy now wanted to be a composer. After leaving the Paris Conservatoire, Debussy found work as the music tutor to the children of wealthy Russian widow, Nadezhda von Meck. This was a great opportunity for the Frenchman. Von Meck was an influential patron of the arts, most notable for her sponsorship of the great Russian composer, Tchaikovsky. Debussy recognised that she could provide him with both monetary support and critical recognition. Debussy also recognised that von Meck was a beautiful woman who had needs. Claude did his best to impress his employer with his dexterity on the piano and his gift for making a perfect casserole. However, von Meck never did "kiss the cook". While she thought he was a nice young boy who had a spectacular way with pork, she just couldn't bring herself to be with a man who didn't share her enthusiasm for sonata-allegro form.
- When Lois considers looking for work in "Peter Problems", Peter decides that it may give him time to expand his record collection. In an ensuing cutaway, he considers purchasing albums by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy.
- A noted trend starter in the history of Classical Music, his Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune is considered as a turning point of classical music, starting the Impressionist movement in classical music, and in many ways the antecedent of Modern and Contemporary Classical music. Needless to say, he was, and still is a highly important and inspiring figure in classical music. His influence to music is as much as Claude Monet's influence to painting. Modern music historians and critics consider himself as the ultimate example, along with his fellow composer Maurice Ravel, of the Impressionist movement. Outside of his musical success though, his life was kind of turbulent. He had an affair with another's wife although already married, his ex-wife attempted (unsuccessfully) suicide, and produced a huge scandal, so much that he had to flee to England. They had a child, who sadly only outlived her father by only a year, died because of the diphtheria epidemic of 1919. The whole family was buried together. Inside of the classical circle, his notable pieces include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune, La Mer, Preludes, Pelléas et Mélisande... The popular listeners might have heard of Clair De Lune, Arabesque No. 1, Children's Corner...
- Achille-Claude Debussy (French: [aʃil klod dəbysi]; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures associated withImpressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions. In France, he was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour 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. Debussy's music is noted for its sensory content and frequent eschewing of tonality. The French literary style of his period was known as Symbolism, and this movement directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant.
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