Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy was born on August 22, 1862, in France. Debussy and his parents lived in a very poverty stricken suburb in Paris. By the age of nine, Claude’s gift of being a pianist began to show; and a female Russian millionaire, Nadezha Filaretovna von Meck, persuaded Debussy to play duets with her and her children. After accepting her offer, Claude Debussy began to travel with the woman all throughout Europe during the summer; time that he was not in school at the Conservatory. While in Paris during the time of travel, Debussy fell in love with a singer named Blanche Vasnier. Vasnier had such an emotional effect on Debussy, that she was the influence on many of his early works. Claude Debussy was very torn in his emotions, and they were the contributing factors of his early style. Claude Debussy’s early style led to one of the most known Debussy compositions: Claire de Lune. (Lockspeiser) Claude Debussy acquired the Prix de Rome with his talent, which was a scholarship for French art students in which the Roman government would pay for a student to live and study in Rome for…

Claude Debussy was born in the year 1862 near Paris, France. His birth name was Achille-Claude Debussy. When Debussy was a young boy, his aunt Clementine set up his first piano lessons with Jean Cerutti. In 1871, his father was arrested and he was sent to live with Antoinette Maute. While living with Maute, Debussy was enrolled in the Paris conservatory and began attending classes in 1872. While he was there he studied under Antoine Marmontel and Albert Lavignac. Even though he was a skilled…

Achille-Claude Debussy was born on the day of August 22, 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. He was the oldest of five children, and immediately showed an amazing artistic ability in music despite that his family had little money. He soon became a household name, traveling for inspiration for his music. He had many affairs, sometimes even working for the woman’s husband! He married twice, and had one child; he died of colon cancer in 1918 in Paris. His most well-known attribute is that he is…

Claude Debussy, born August 22 1862and died at the age of 56 on the 25th of March 1918. He was born in France and is known as a very influential composer of the 19th century going into the 20th century. Debussy started piano lessons when he was 7 and at age 10 he left to go study many musically related things such as: music history, harmony, and composition. Debussy was considered to change music in such a way that no one had ever heard of. He did this through the development of dissonances…

Claude-Achille Debussy, born August 22, 1862; Debussy was a composer is a born and raised in the Country of France. Claude Debussy was born and grew in a poor family in France of 1862; he was the oldest of five children. At the age of seven Debussy began piano lessons with an Italian violinist named Jean Cerutti. “When Debussy was 22, he won the Prix de Rome, which financed two years of musical study in the Italian capital. After the turn of the century, Debussy established himself as the…

Debussy's Musical Impressionism "I have no hobbies...They never taught me anything but music." ––Claude Debussy. He brought an entirely new musical style into the public eye; he expressed visual phenomena by appealing to auditory senses; he stepped outside of the grasp of Romanticism, yet still followed its pathways; he paved the road for nearly all modern music to be composed after him; he altered music history. Claude Debussy was nothing if not an absolute master of the art of composition,…

Born in August 22, 1862 in Saint Germain En Laye, France, Claude Debussy was not known for having the greatest beginning to an exciting life. But while his family did not have a lot of money, they were still able to understand his amazing talent with a piano and by the age of 7 he was in Piano lessons. At the age of 10 or 11 Debussy had entered into the Paris Conservatoire, within his time there his instructors and his fellow students were awed by his obvious talent but often found his musical…

Born to a poor family in France, Claude Debussy arrived into the world on August 22, 1862. He became the oldest of five children. By the time he turned nine, he showed gift as a pianist. Madame Maute de Fleurville encouraged him and in 1873 he entered the Paris Conservatory. He studied piano and composition. While living in poverty, Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck discovered him. She engaged him to play duets with her and her children. He often traveled with her throughout Europe during the summer…

and approaches that are still used in today’s musical process. Achille- Claude Debussy is one, of few, ingenious composers who tested limits that made him remarkable. Debussy was born on August 22, 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. He was a French composer and force to be reckoned with throughout the transition from the late romantic period to the 20th century. Claude Debussy was not afraid to stray away from the traditional use of harmony, melody, and structural techniques of his lifetime.…

Debussy was the oldest of five children, and his father Manuel-Achille Debussy, owned a china shop in and his mother, Victorine Manoury Debussy, was a seamstress. In 1867 the family moved to Paris but Debussy's pregnant mother fled in 1870 with Claude to his aunt's home in Cannes to flee the Franco-Prussian War. This is when and where Debussy at the age of seven began piano lessons paid for by his aunt with Italian violinist Cerutti. In 1871 he got the attention of Marie Mauté de Fleurville,…