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, ...

Flutes and fauns, dreams of the sea, Clair de Lune, and more. We’re celebrating the 150 th of composer Claude Debussy. Claude Debussy at the piano, 1893 Claude Debussy composed in the time of the ...

Associate Professor Piano Division, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney French composer Claude Debussy’s best-loved piano piece, Clair de Lune, has entered popular consciousness ...

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 ...

Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...

The pairing of Debussy and Mahler illuminated the BSO’s command of sound and sensitivity under Nelsons’ direction.