Debussy is not only among the most important of all French composers but also a central figure in European music at the turn of the twentieth century. His music is noted for its sensory component and how it is not often formed around one key or pitch. Often Debussy's work reflected the activities or turbulence in his own life.
His music virtually defines the transition from late-Romantic music to twentieth century modernist music. In French literary circles, the style of this period was known as symbolism, a movement that directly inspired Debussy both as a composer and as an active cultural participant. Claude Debussy died of rectal cancer in Paris on March 25, , in the midst of the aerial and artillery bombardment of the city during the Spring Offensive of World War I.
At this time, the military situation in France was desperate, and circumstances did not permit his being paid the honour of a public funeral or ceremonious graveside orations. Please verify your email address by opening the welcome email in your email inbox. Check your spam folder if you can't find it there.
We have sent another confimation email. Instructions on setting a new password have been sent to your email address. Facebook Login Sign up the easy way. Setting Primary Image. Claude Debussy Born: 22 Aug Memoire January 24, Sabrina May 10, Nearby Graves. Find more about Claude We found more records about Claude Debussy. Grave Site of Claude edit. Trial Try full digital access and see why over 1 million readers subscribe to the FT.
For 4 weeks receive unlimited Premium digital access to the FT's trusted, award-winning business news. Digital Be informed with the essential news and opinion. Delivery to your home or office Monday to Saturday FT Weekend paper — a stimulating blend of news and lifestyle features ePaper access — the digital replica of the printed newspaper. Team or Enterprise Premium FT. Pay based on use. The pieces he played in public at this time included sonata movements by Beethoven, Schumann and Weber; and Chopin—the Ballade No.
During the summers of , , and Debussy accompanied the wealthy patroness of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Nadezhda von Meck, as she travelled with her family in Europe. Not a single idea is expressed fully, the form is terribly shriveled, and it lacks unity. She and her husband, Henri, gave Debussy emotional and professional support. Henri Vasnier introduced him to the writings of influential French writers of the time, which gave rise to his first songs, settings of poems by Paul Verlaine, the son-in-law of his former teacher, Mme.
Neither did he delight in Italian opera, as he found the operas of Donizetti and Verdi not to his taste. Debussy was often depressed and unable to compose, but he was inspired by Franz Liszt, whose command of the keyboard he found admirable. But there is no help for it! I am too enamoured of my freedom, too fond of my own ideas!
During his visits to Bayreuth in —9, Debussy was exposed to Wagnerian opera, which had a lasting impact on his work.
Around this time, Debussy met Erik Satie, who proved a kindred spirit in his experimental approach to composition and to naming his pieces. During this period, both musicians were bohemians enjoying the same cafe society and struggling to stay afloat financially. He incorporated gamelan scales, melodies, rhythms, and ensemble textures into some of his compositions, most notably Pagodes from his piano collection Estampes.
At the age of 18 he began an eight-year affair with Marie-Blanche Vasnier, wife of a Parisian civil servant. The relationship eventually faltered following his winning of the Prix de Rome in and obligatory residence in Rome. Such cavalier behaviour was widely condemned, and precipitated the end of his long friendship with Ernest Chausson. Moreover, her looks had prematurely aged, and she was unable to bear children.
In contrast to Texier, Bardac was a sophisticate, a brilliant conversationalist, and an accomplished singer. On their return to France, Debussy wrote to Texier from Dieppe on 11 August, informing her their marriage was over, but still making no mention of Bardac.
Debussy briefly moved to an apartment at 10 avenue Alphand. On 14 October, five days before their fifth wedding anniversary, Texier attempted suicide, shooting herself in the chest with a revolver while standing in the Place de la Concorde; she survived, although the bullet remained lodged in her vertebrae for the rest of her life.
The ensuing scandal was to alienate Debussy from many of his friends, whilst Bardac was disowned by her family. In the spring of , finding the hostility towards them intolerable, Debussy and Bardac now pregnant fled to England, via Jersey. The couple settled at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne from 24 July to 30 August , where Debussy was to correct proofs to his symphonic suite La mer , and celebrate his divorce from Texier on 2 August. After a brief visit to London, the couple returned to Paris in September, buying a house in a courtyard development off the Avenue du Bois de Boulogne now Avenue Foch , where Debussy was to reside for the rest of his life.
He loved his music — and perhaps himself. I think he was wrapped up in his genius… He was a very, very strange man. Claude-Emma outlived her father by scarcely a year, succumbing to the diphtheria epidemic of after her doctor administered the wrong treatment. Debussy died of rectal cancer at his Paris home on 25 March , at the age of
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