Essay On Claude Debussy

1069 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: A short essay about Claude Debussy

The Life of Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy once said “But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.” Claude Debussy was a highly respected french composer of the 19th and 20th century. Debussy was born on August 22, 1862, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. He was the oldest of five children in his family. Debussy was the only musical one of his family. When he was born, his father, Manuel-Achille Debussy, supported his family by running a china shop while his mother, Victorine Manoury Debussy, worked as a seamstress. Debussy father was also a traveling salesman, a clerk, and a printer's assistant. Although he was born into a poor family, he had an astonishing gift of playing the piano and began taking lessons at the age of seven. In 1867, after living in France for a while, his whole family moves …show more content…

“Claude Debussy.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 22 Apr. 2015
"TOP 25 QUOTES BY CLAUDE DEBUSSY (of 55)." A-Z Quotes. Web. 01 Sept. 2017.
Lockspeiser, Edward. “Claude Debussy.” Encyclopaedia Britannica , Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 2 Mar. 2017
Biography.com Editors. “Claude Debussy.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 22 Apr. 2015
Sherrane, Robert. “Claude Debussy.” Special Collections, ipl2.
Green, Aaron. “Claude Debussy Biography.” ThoughtCo., 13 Feb. 2017
“Claude Debussy Biography.” Encyclopedia of World Biography, Advameg, Inc
Editors, TheFamousPeople.com. “Claude Debussy Biography.” TheFamousPeople, 26 July 2017
“Lecture 21 - Musical Impressionism and Exoticism: Debussy, Ravel and Monet.” Performance by Professor Wright, MUSI 112: Listening to Music, Yale University
“Claude Debussy (1862-1918).” Music Academy Online
“Influential People: Claude Debussy.” FUGUE FOR THOUGHT, WordPress, 17 Feb. 2016
Wright, Craig. 22.2 - Claude Debussy's "Claire De Lune". Yale,

Show More
Related

  • Analysis Of Cecile Mclorin Salvant's Performance

    1011 Words  | 3 Pages

    Music is magical: it soothes you when you are upset and cheers you up when you are down. To me, it is a communication with souls. I listen to different genres of music. When appreciating each form of music, with its unique rhythm and melody, I expect to differentiate each other by the feelings and emotions that it brings to me. However, I would definitely never call myself “a fan of jazz” until I witnessed Cécile McLorin Salvant’s performance last Friday at Mondavi Center. Through the interpretations and illustrations from Cécile’s performance, I realized that the cultural significance and individual identity are the building blocks of jazz music that create its unique musical features and support its development.

    Read More

  • Degas And Aesthetics Essay

    398 Words  | 1 Pages

    Furthermore, resonation can be found in Preziosi exploration of the establishment of female identification through aesthetics. Within Preziosi chapter on aesthetics he addresses main issues including “Kant’s Critique of Judgment, judgment about beauty, and perception of perfection.” Aesthetics was addressed in the perception of how the female body is formed and encased while a male looks at the female body. In this case the male would be Degas gazing at his ballerina while either sketching his model or doing a sculpture of the ballerina. Preziosi states that “there should be two kinds of theory or sciences of knowledge corresponding to each logic and aesthetics.” This concept of two kinds of theory made more apparent as every sculptor Degas made is presented as a different theory, yet the two theories are different, Degas’s artwork deals with both logic and aesthetics. Logic can be applied to Degas’s____, works of art. Where as aesthetics deals with____. Later on in Preziosi chapter on aesthetics, he brings up the issue of “the idea that sensory knowledge could have its own perfection-and, further, that an aesthetic judgment about beauty or beautiful objects.” When viewing Degas’s sculptor the

    Read More

  • Modest Mussorgsky Essay

    1209 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Five, The Mighty Handful, and The New Russian School all depict the five Russian composers who came together in 1856-57 in St Petersburg. Their ultimate goal was to portray and produce a Russian style of music , and this is exactly what they would accomplish. Though one of "The Five" goes farther than this with his works, this being Modest Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky was a composer born march 21st 1839, with one of the most controversial names and spellings of a name. He was born to wealthy land owners and was raised for the military life. Studying piano at a young age in St. Petersburg, then later arriving at a cadet school.

    Read More

  • Edgar Degas Art

    2012 Words  | 5 Pages

    Edgar Degas was born July 19th, 1834 in Paris, France. Born into wealth, Degas became well educated throughout his youth. He studied Law at the University of Paris, due to his father’s desire for him to achieve financial security on his own. However, his love for art was ever-present, even at a young age. He turned his bedroom into his own personal studio by age 18. During his time at the University of Paris, Degas met well-renowned artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, who encouraged him to pursue his talent. Shortly after, Degas was accepted to the premiere Ecole des Beaux-arts ('School of Fine Arts'). Post attendance, Degas traveled to Italy for three years to continue his artistic studies. Degas life was nowhere near perfect, when he was 13 years old, his mother passed away. This caused him tremendous heartache, due to the fact that his mother was a lover of the arts; she was an opera singer and often gave recitals in their home (“Edgar Degas”). She inspired and encouraged his artistic ways.

    Read More

  • Essay On Madame De Pompadour

    993 Words  | 2 Pages

    Madame de Pompadour may have only been chief mistress of the king of France, but she was most definitely a queen. Although she was common born, she could play the clavichord, was well learned in many arts, had a thirst for literature that lasted all her life, and seduced the king. She was admired by many, and thought to be beautiful and charming as well as extremely intelligent. Among her friends were intellectuals such as Voltaire, and the queen of France, despite her being a bourgeois mistress, and a rather different one at that.

    Read More

  • Francesca Caccini

    1833 Words  | 4 Pages

    This is the second volume of Richard Taruskin's historical work, and it highlights composers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He examines the progression of different styles and eras of music.

    Read More

  • Overview of Edgard Varèse’s Density 21.5 for Unaccompanied Flute

    1644 Words  | 4 Pages

    ...hools of Music and Visual Arts, edited by Steven Johnson, 57 - 74. New York: Routledge, 2002.

    Read More

  • Why is Authenticity Important In Rock Music?

    912 Words  | 2 Pages

    Putman, D. (1990). THE AESTHETIC RELATION OF MUSICAL PERFORMER AND AUDIENCE. British Journal of Aesthetics. 30 (4), 1-2.

    Read More

  • Biography of Achille-Claude Debussy

    704 Words  | 2 Pages

    Claude Debussy (born Achille-Claude Debussy) was born August 22, 1862, in St-Germain-en-Laye France. He showed a knack for the piano at the age of 9. Debussy was one of 5 children. Debussy did not come from a wealthy family. His parents owned a small shop. At age 11 he entered the Pairs Conservatory. At the Conservatory Debussy study piano and composition. While there he also studied theory with Alfred Lavignac, piano with Antoine Marmontel, harmony with Émile Durand, and harmony composition with Ernest Guiraud. Around 1880 a wealthy woman named Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, who was a pupil of Frédéric Chopin, and supported Pyotr llyich Tchaikovsky hired Debussy to teach her children. During summer vacations at the Conservatory he traveled with Nadezhda. He learned more about the Russian music and cultural which later would be reflected in his work. During his time in Paris he fell in love with Blanche Vasnier, who was an inspiration to his works in the early years. In 1884, Debussy won the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata L’Enfant prodigue. Debussy became a cautious and difficult man who preferred cats to people. He did not really have many friends or confidants. In 1887 Debussy li...

    Read More

  • The Controversy of Marcel Duchamp

    856 Words  | 2 Pages

    One of the most unique figures in the continuum of the art world, Marcel Duchamp changed the way we look at and produce art today. Marcel Duchamp was by far, one of the most controversial figures in art. Two of the most well known and talked about pieces by him are The Fountain and The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even . Duchamp created many other pieces that caught the attention of critics, other artists, and the population in a negative way; however, these two pieces alone, brought about the greatest amount of controversy.

    Read More

  • Adorno Popular Music

    1479 Words  | 3 Pages

    This essay will be discussing Theodor W. Adorno’s critiques of popular music and examine the extent of whether or not his criticisms are accurate to contemporary music. A range of issues will be discussed in the essay to explore the subject matter. Through research, there will be relevant quotes and theories to support the views of this particular topic.

    Read More

  • Steve Reich: A Lasting Influence

    988 Words  | 2 Pages

    Reich, Steve. Writings about Music. Halifax: Nova Scotia Coll.of Art & Design P., 1974. Print.

    Read More

  • Art History Essay

    767 Words  | 2 Pages

    History plays a very important role in the development of art and architecture. Over time people, events, and religion, have contributed to the evolution of art. Christianity has become a very common and well established religion, however, in the past it was hidden and a few people would worship this religion secretly. Gradually, Christianity became a growing religion and it attracted many converts from different social statuses. Christian art was highly influenced by the Greco-Romans, but it was immensely impacted by the establishment of the Edict of Milan in the year 313 AD. The Edict of Milan was so significant that scholars divide Christian art into two time periods, time before and after the Edict of Milan of 313.

    Read More

  • Cultural Impact Of Jazz

    782 Words  | 2 Pages

    Salome, Frank. (2205). Jazz and its Impact on European Classical Music. Journal of Popular Culture, 38(4), pg. 732. Retrieved from

    Read More

  • Claude Debussy: A Musical Genius

    967 Words  | 2 Pages

    Claude Debussy is a French classical music composer. Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France in 1862. Debussy’s music was considered to fall under the impressionism study as he veered away from the traditional musical composition methods of key and pitch and worried about the different intervals in a piece. Debussy started playing the piano at the young age of seven, by age ten it was apparent that Debussy was very gifted in what he did as he was selected to attend a prestigious school for talented musicians, dancers and artists. Debussy stayed at the Conservatoire for eleven years where he perfected his talents with the help of some famous composers such as I...

    Read More

More about Essay On Claude Debussy

Open Document