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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Achille-Claude Debussy 1
Debussy 1

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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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Ballets Russes → collaboratedWith → Claude Debussy ⓘ
Claude Debussy → familyName → Claude Debussy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Debussy
Claude Debussy → fullName → Claude Debussy self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Achille-Claude Debussy
Conservatoire de Paris → hasAlumnus → Claude Debussy ⓘ
Gamelan → influenced → Claude Debussy ⓘ
Aaron Copland → influencedBy → Claude Debussy ⓘ
Alexandre Desplat → influencedBy → Claude Debussy ⓘ
Maurice Ravel → influencedBy → Claude Debussy ⓘ
Prix de Rome → notable winner → Claude Debussy ⓘ