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
daring duty fits formula modern victory
It is our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand?
beautiful far nasty people
People don't very much like things that are beautiful -- they are so far from their nasty little minds.
shadow want return
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.
music art air
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
weekend silence quiet
Music is the silence between the notes.
beautiful art lying
Art is the most beautiful of all lies.
color essence made
I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.
wind tree advice
Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind...
beautiful sunset dawn
A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.
beautiful book sunset
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
music reason no-reason
If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.
idols ubiquity common-sense
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
two paris age
When Claude Debussy studied at the Paris Conservatory from age ten to age twenty-two, many considered him a rebel because of his treatment of dissonance and his disdain for the established forms. He reputedly turned to a fellow student during a performance of Beethoven with the words, "Let's go. He's starting to develop.
expression swag play
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.