Claude-Achille Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy (1862-1918)

According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Claude-Achille [really named Achille-Claude] was a French composer, also noted as critic; born near Paris, worked and died in Paris, visited Russia 1881. Worked out new outlook on harmony and musical structure, of which the name impressionism reveals its kinship with contemporary visual art; he has affinity also with such poets as Verlaine and Baudelaire, whom he set. Was first pro- then anti-Wagner; his opera "Pelleas and Melisande" (dedicated to André Messager) is unlike any predecessor though seemingly indebted to Mussorgsky for cultivation with natural speech-inflexions. In addition to operas he wrote works for orchestra, 2 books of piano preludes and other piano works; string quartet, violin sonata and cello sonata.

Sheet Music:
Sheet music at SheetMusicPlus.com
Further sheet music at DBE: ON HOLD
Websites:
CCD: Debussy, Claude (1862-1918) , biography etc.
DEBUSSY, CLAUDE-ACHILLE BIOGRAPHY by www.naxos.com.
Books:
[§] Debussy by Percy Marshall, Young

Recorder Music CDs:
Micro Classics by Michael Copley
Ragtime Music CDs:
Ragtime Lullabies by Paul Bisaccia
Le Ragtime by Claude Bolling
Last Time Rag: Joplin - Morton et al by Marco Fumo
Brass Music CDs:
The Canadian Brass Encore by Canadian Brass
Sounds of the Circus - Volume 21 by South Shore Circus Concert Band