Claude Debussy

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French composer composer human music critic pianist

Claude Debussy was a pioneering French composer whose innovative harmonies and impressionistic style profoundly reshaped Western classical music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Aliases (2)

Achille-Claude Debussy ×1
Debussy ×1

Statements (76)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French composer → composer → human → music critic → pianist →
activeYearsEnd	1918 →
activeYearsStart	1880 →
awardReceived	Prix de Rome →
burialPlace	Cimetière de Passy, Paris →
causeOfDeath	colorectal cancer →
child	Claude-Emma Debussy →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1862-08-22 →
dateOfDeath	1918-03-25 →
describedAs	key figure of musical Impressionism → pioneering French composer →
educatedAt	Conservatoire de Paris →
familyName	Debussy →
fullName	Achille-Claude Debussy →
genre	art song → chamber music → classical music → opera → orchestral music → piano music →
givenName	Achille-Claude →
influenced	20th-century classical music → Béla Bartók → Igor Stravinsky → Maurice Ravel → Olivier Messiaen →
influencedBy	Erik Satie → Franz Liszt → Gabriel Fauré → Javanese gamelan music → Modest Mussorgsky → Richard Wagner → symbolist poetry →
language	French →
movement	Impressionism → Symbolism →
nationality	French →
notableWork	Children’s Corner → Clair de lune → Estampes → Images → Images pour orchestre → Jeux → La Damoiselle élue → La Mer → La cathédrale engloutie → Le Martyre de saint Sébastien → L’isle joyeuse → Nocturnes → Pelléas et Mélisande → Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune → Préludes (Book I) → Préludes (Book II) → Rhapsodie pour clarinette et orchestre → String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10 → Suite bergamasque →
occupation	composer → music critic → pianist →
placeOfBirth	Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France →
placeOfDeath	Paris, France →
residence	Paris, France →
spouse	Emma Bardac → Lilly Texier →
style	innovative harmony → non-functional tonality → orchestral colorism → parallel chords → use of pentatonic scales → use of whole-tone scales →
yearAwarded	1884 →

Referenced by (11)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Aaron Copland → Alexandre Desplat → Maurice Ravel →	influencedBy
Ballets Russes →	collaboratedWith
Claude Debussy ("Debussy") →	familyName
Claude Debussy ("Achille-Claude Debussy") →	fullName
Conservatoire de Paris →	hasAlumnus
Gamelan →	influenced
Prix de Rome →	notable winner
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées →	notablePerformer
Grand Prix de Rome in music →	notableWinner