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Claude Debussy was a French composer who is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his pioneering use of chromaticism and whole-tone scales, as well as his innovative use of orchestration and harmony. Debussy's music is often described as impressionistic, and his works are considered to be some of the most important in the history of classical music. Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, and began studying music at an early age. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire, where he won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1884. He went on to compose a number of works, including the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, the orchestral suite La Mer, and the piano suite Préludes. Debussy's music was highly influential, and he is credited with helping to usher in the modern era of classical music. He died in Paris in 1918.

Popular As Achille-Claude Debussy
Occupation soundtrack,music_department,composer
Age 56 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 22 August 1862
Birthday 22 August
Birthplace Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines], France
Date of death 25 March, 1918
Died Place Paris, France
Nationality France

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Who Is Claude Debussy's Wife?

His wife is Emma Moyse (20 January 1908 - 25 March 1918) ( his death) ( 1 child), Marie Texier (19 October 1899 - 2 August 1905) ( divorced)

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Wife Emma Moyse (20 January 1908 - 25 March 1918) ( his death) ( 1 child), Marie Texier (19 October 1899 - 2 August 1905) ( divorced)
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1910

His piano masterpiece "Preludes" were composed in 1910-1913. The twelve preludes of the first book are alluding to Frédéric Chopin, with more provocative harmonies, especially the "La Cathedrale Engloutie". In the second book of twelve preludes Debussy explored avant-garde, with deliciously dissonant harmonies and mysterious images. The beginning of WW I and the onset of cancer depressed Debussy. He left unfinished opera, ballets and two pieces after stories by Edgar Allan Poe that later were completed by his assistants.

1909

Debussy called her Chou-Chou and composed for her the collection of piano pieces "Children's Corner Suite" (1909).

1908

In 1908 Debussy married singer Emma Bardac after they had a daughter, Claude-Emma.

1899

He composed orchestral "Nocturnes", "La Mer", "Images" (1899-1909), and the intricate ballet "Jeux" (1912) for "Ballets Russes" of Sergei Diaghilev. He was fascinated with Maurice Maeterlinck's play "Pelleas et Melisande", which inspired him to compose the eponymous symbolist opera which was praised by Paul Dukas and Maurice Ravel.

1892

His "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" (1892) continued the most productive 20-year period in his life.

1890

In 1890 he wrote his most famous music collection for piano, "Suite bergamasque", containing "Clair de Lune".

1889

He used the Wagnerian chromaticism for upgrades to his own tonal harmony in "Cinq poems de Baudelaire" (1889). Debussy became influenced by the impressionist poets and artists in the circle of Stéphane Mallarmé.

1888

In 1888 and 1889 he went to listen to yet more of Wagner's music at the Bayreuth Festspiehaus. There he was very impressed by "Parsifal" and other of Wagner's works.

1883

Debussy won the Prix de Rome twice--in 1883 and 1884--and the money covered his studies at the Villa de Medici in Rome for the next four years. In Rome he met Franz Liszt and Giuseppe Verdi and heard more of Wagner's music, which made a strong impression on him.

1872

Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, France. His father was a salesman and kept a china shop. His mother was a seamstress. Some traumatizing events in his childhood caused him a depression and he never spoke about his early years. Later he could not compose without having his favorite porcelain frog. Debussy's piano teacher, Mme. Maute, had been a student of Frédéric Chopin. She sent Debussy to the Paris Conservatory, where he studied from 1872-84 with César Franck, Ernest Guiraud and others. He lived at the castle of Nadezhda von Meck and taught her children. She was a wealthy patroness of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and eventually Debussy played all pieces by Tchaikovsky in addition to other classical repertoire. She also took Debussy on trips to Venice, Vienna and Moscow. In Vienna he heard "Tristan und Isolde" by Richard Wagner and later admitted that it had influenced him for a number of years.