Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar (Achille) Claude Debussy [n 1] was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at ...
Edward Lockspeiser (21 May 1905 – 3 Feb 1973) was an English musicologist, composer, art critic and radio broadcaster on music who specialized in the works and life of French composer Claude Debussy and was considered one of the few British authorities on French classical music.
Emma Bardac (née Moyse; 10 July 1862 – 20 August 1934) was a French singer and the mutual love interest of both Gabriel Fauré and Claude Debussy.. Of Jewish descent, Emma married in the Synagogue of Arcachon, [1] [2] aged 17, Parisian banker Sigismond Bardac, by whom she had two children: Raoul, and Régina-Hélène (later Madame Gaston de Tinan (1892–1985)).
Born in Paris in 1881, Bardac was Emma Bardac's son and became Claude Debussy's stepson after the marriage of the latter to his mother. [2] He is the brother of Hélène Bardac, [3] known as Dolly, who became Madame Gaston de Tinan [4] and until her death in 1985, the beneficiary of Debussy's work.
Ravel in 1925. Joseph Maurice Ravel [n 1] (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term.
After research into the songs of Claude Debussy, Nichols's first book, published by the Oxford University Press (OUP) was a study of that composer (1972), an 86-page work, part of the OUP's "Oxford Studies of Composers" series.
In 1970, he won the Prix Claude Debussy, [4] and is one of the most respected performers of Debussy's works. He once taught piano and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris (1985) [4] and gives several master classes, notably in Greece and Japan. In 1995, he was also appointed professor of piano at the Conservatoire européen de Paris.
The Musée Claude-Debussy, or Maison Claude Debussy, is the birthplace of the composer Claude Debussy, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, a western suburb of Paris, France. It contains a small museum about the composer.