Debussy removes the footsteps for a moment to expose the melody, allowing the music to thaw while opening up a new world. "We discover what's possible when we leave our obsessions behind," Kapilow ...

Debussy, however, never got around to orchestrating it, and the composer whom he authorized to complete the work, Henri Busser, opted to take a more orthodox route, without the chorus.

Bookshelf ‘Debussy’ Review: An Ear for Beauty With wit and intellectual muscle, Stephen Walsh demonstrates how the emblematic extremes of Debussy’s career are inextricably linked.

Debussy's prelude, with its quiet, snowbound character, was radical when it appeared in 1910. "We tend to think of radical obsession as something loud, like Beethoven," Kapilow says.

On Sunday, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet returned to Orchestra Hall with an invitation to wade in a single great work: Claude Debussy’s Préludes. Considering the Préludes a “work” is ...

One hundred years ago Saturday, classical music witnessed a sea change — quite literally. On Oct. 15, 1905, French composer Claude Debussy's symphonic portrait of the sea, called "La Mer ...

Debussy wrote for a variety of publications as Monsieur Croche (literally Mr Quaver). Beethoven was derided as a “deaf old man”, Franck dismissed as merely “Belgian”, and Grieg’s music described ...

In 1889, Achille-Claude Debussy, then in his mid-20s, was one of 30 million people to walk through the iron arches of the newly completed Eiffel Tower. Throughout that year, the arches served as ...

Although Debussy’s harmonies of mathematical structuring were considered radical in his day, he influenced nearly every composer of the 20th century from Igor Stravinsky to modern jazz musicians.

Musical composition is based on a ruse. Ten seconds of music can hide 10 weeks of anguished pen-work. One lively theme can sit on the grave of 20 erased precursors. The ruse of writing points to a ...

"Debussy, Music and the Arts" at the Musée de l'Orangerie captures the composer's bourgeois-bohemian world of Post-Impressionists, Symbolist poets and painters, and the modernist artistic ferment ...