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Online Musical Encyclopedia:
Composers: Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy (photo) (audio)
Claude Debussy was an impressionist. His music was based on the whole-tone scale that the western ear was not and
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still isn't accustomed to. As a child, it is said that young Claude would bore of his scale and practing on the piano and he would fiddle around with chords, mostly whole-tone chords.
Born on August 22nd, 1862,
Claude Debussy began taking piano lessons when he was seven years old. He soon came under the influence of Madame Maute de Fleurville, a pupil of Chopin. At age eleven, he entered the Paris Conservatory. At age twenty two, Debussy was allowed to study for two years at the French Academy in Rome. Debussy's most noteworthy work was "Pelleas et Melisande", an opera based on a play. "Clair de Lune" is perhaps his most famous composition.
In fact, all Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows 98 operating system software comes with a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) file of "Clair de Lune".
Although by the twentieth century, Debussy had quieted down in fame, this was the period where he created the greatest piano pieces. His work on "The Children's Corner" for his daughter was unique and different. He died in Paris on March 25th, 1918.
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