Debussy: A Painter in Sound. By Stephen Walsh. Faber and Faber; 368 pages; £20. To be published in America by Knopf in October; $28.95. CLAUDE DEBUSSY was a rarity: an avant-garde composer who was ...
Everyone knows Debussy’s early piano piece “Clair de lune” (“Moonlight”), one of the most memorably tuneful pieces in the classical-music repertoire. Fewer people know his scintillating late ballet ...
(Achille) Claude Debussy 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 ...