Ashil Claude Biography

Achille-Claude Debussy on August 22, Saint-Germain-on-L-L-La near Paris-March 25, Paris is a French composer, a musical critic. Composed in a style that is often called impressionism, a term that he never loved. Debussy was not only one of the most significant French composers, but also one of the most significant figures in music at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries; His music is a transitional form from late romantic music to modernism in the music of the XX century.

He was born on August 22 in Saint-Germain-en-le near Paris in a family of modest prosperity-his father in the past was a naval infantryman, then co-owner of the lavage of faience products. The first lessons of the piano game gave the gifted child the Antoinette-Flora Mete Mother of the poet Verelene. His parents - small bourgeois - loved music, but were far from real professional art.

Random musical impressions of early childhood did not contribute little to the artistic development of the future composer. The brightest of them were rare visits of the opera. Only from the age of nine, Debussy began to study the game on the piano. At the insistence of their family, a pianist who recognized Claude's outstanding abilities, his parents gave him to the Paris Conservatory in the year.

This educational institution was in the years of the XIX century a stronghold of the most conservative and routine methods of teaching young musicians. The director of the conservatory after Salvador Daniel, the musical commissar of the Paris Commune, shot in the days of its defeat, was the composer Ambruase Tom - a person very limited in matters of musical education.

Among the teachers of the conservatory were outstanding musicians - S. Frank, L. Delib, E. As possible, they supported every new phenomenon in the musical life of Paris, every original performing and composer talent. Glated classes of the first years brought Debussy annual Solfezhio awards. And the classes of solfeggio and accompaniment practical exercises for the piano in harmony for the first time appeared and his interest in new harmonic turns, a variety of and complex rhythms.

Before him, the colorful-caloric capabilities of the harmonic language are opened in front of him. The pianistic talent of Debussy developed extremely quickly. Already in his student years, his game was distinguished by internal content, emotionality, subtlety of nuance, a rare variety and wealth of a sound palette. But the originality of his performing style, devoid of fashionable external virtuosity and brilliance, did not find proper recognition either among the teachers of the conservatory or the peers of Debussy.

For the first time, his pianistic talent was marked by the prize only in the year for the performance of Sonata Schumann. The first serious clashes with the existing methods of conservative teaching occur in Debussy in the harmony class. The independent harmonic thinking of Debussy could not put up with the traditional restrictions that reigned in the course of harmony. Only the composer E.

Giro, whose Debussy was engaged in the composition, was truly imbued with the aspirations of his student and found unanimity with him in artistic and aesthetic views and musical tastes.