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00:00:00 Suite bergamasque - Clair de lune
00:04:29 Préludes, Livre 1 - La Cathédrale engloutie - Profondèment calme
00:11:56 2 Arabesques - Arabesques n. 1 - Andantino con moto
00:17:20 2 Arabesques - Arabesques n. 2 - Allegretto scherzando
00:23:12 Préludes, Livre 1 - La fille aux cheveux de lin - Très calme et doucement expressif
00:26:03 Préludes, Livre 1 - Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir - Modèrè
00:30:50 Préludes, Livre 1 - Danseuses de Delphes - Lent et grave
00:34:07 Préludes, Livre 1 - Des pas sur la neige - Triste et lent
00:37:43 Préludes, Livre 2 - Bruyères - Calme doucement expressif
00:41:27 Préludes, Livre 2 - Canope - Très calme et doucement triste
00:44:41 Rêverie - Andantino
00:52:20 Pour le piano - Sarabande - Avec une élégance grave et lent
00:58:42 Images, 1ere série - Hommage à Rameau - Lent et grave
01:09:10 Children’s Corner - Jimbo’s Lullaby - Assez Modéré
01:14:10 Children’s Corner - The Little Shepherd - Triste Modèrè
01:16:44 Children’s Corner - Golliwog’s Cake-walk - Allegro giusto
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Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) 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 the age of ten to France’s leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire’s conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande.
Debussy’s orchestral works include Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (1894), Nocturnes (1897–1899) and Images (1905–1912). His music was to a considerable extent a reaction against Wagner and the German musical tradition. He regarded the classical symphony as obsolete and sought an alternative in his “symphonic sketches“, La mer (1903–1905). His piano works include two books of Préludes and two of Études. Throughout his career he wrote mélodies based on a wide variety of poetry, including his own. He was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poetic movement of the later 19th century. A small number of works, including the early La Damoiselle élue and the late Le Martyre de saint Sébastien have important parts for chorus. In his final years, he focused on chamber music, completing three of six planned sonatas for different combinations of instruments.
With early influences including Russian and far-eastern music, Debussy developed his own style of harmony and orchestral colouring, derided – and unsuccessfully resisted – by much of the musical establishment of the day. His works have strongly influenced a wide range of composers including Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin, and the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. Debussy died from cancer at his home in Paris at the age of 55 after a composing career of a little more than 30 years.
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