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.

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Label	Occurrences
Claude Debussy canonical	84
Debussy	3
Achille-Claude Debussy	2

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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	Claude Debussy self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Debussy
fullName	Claude Debussy self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ Gamelan ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ L’Après-midi d’un faune ⓘ surface form: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune Préludes (Book I) ⓘ Préludes (Book I) ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ surface form: Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
placeOfDeath	Paris ⓘ surface form: Paris, France
residence	Paris ⓘ surface form: 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 ⓘ

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La Mer → composer → Claude Debussy ⓘ

Clair de lune → composer → Claude Debussy ⓘ

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Pelléas et Mélisande → composer → Claude Debussy ⓘ

Préludes (Book I) → composer → Claude Debussy ⓘ