Writing music about water came naturally to Claude Debussy. His father was a sailor and encouraged young Claude’s imagination with stories about vast waters and exotic lands. A family visit to Cannes, ...

As a composer whose orchestral music usually grew from scenic or pictorial inspirations – the sea, a faun, clouds, a street festival in Spain – Debussy probably seems an unlikely writer of something ...

Claude Debussy was tired of writing the same type of music in the 1890s. The grand Romantics -- Camille Saint-Saens, Antonin Dvorak, Giacomo Puccini and Guiseppe Verdi -- were still the style. Debussy ...

Claude Debussy was slow to develop as a composer for the piano, despite the fact that it was his instrument of choice. But the piano works he did write are extraordinarily important. In their ...

I’ve always loved Claude Debussy’s music. From the first time I heard “Afternoon of a Faun” when I was around 19 or twenty, his music has exerted a strong emotional pull on me. For me, Debussy–and ...

In the western suburbs of Paris 150 years ago today, a boy was born to an unassuming couple, proprietors of a china shop who had no great taste for music. But that little boy felt otherwise, and grew ...

Opening today and continuing through June 10, visitors to Smith College Museum of Art can explore the “soundscape” of Paris during the lifetime of the French composer Claude Debussy and discover the ...

March Music Moderne, Portland's annual quirky festival of new music, will celebrate Claude Debussy this year with a series of events inspired by the influential French composer, who died 100 years ago ...