Claude Debussy
Bryan Medina 4/30/14 Period 4
Claude Debussy
“Music is the expression of the movement of waters…” Nine words is what it takes to vividly put into perspective the life of Claude Debussy and how he composed his own music. Debussy wrote his music as if he were to trying to portray water; making his music flow, reflect, and permeate through the listener’s ears. Masterful compositions such as “Claire De Lune”, “Prelude” from the Suite Bergamasque, “Deux Arabesques”, and “Le Fille Aux Chevuex de Lin” resemble not only Debussy’s passion for music, but the extent to which he can express himself without words. Claude Debussy was a virtuosic man whose life, the beginning, middle, and end of it, befittingly relates to his music. Debussy was truly a maestro of the art of impressionistic music. Claude -ArAchille Debussy was born on August 22nd, 1862 in Saint-Germaine-En-Laye, France to Manuel-Achille Debussy and Victorine Manoury Debussy. His father was the owner of a China shop in Saint-Germaine-En-Laye and his mother was a seamstress. Claude was the eldest of five children. Four years later, in 1867, Claude and his family moved to Paris, France but then, in 1870, Claude and his pregnant mother left to live with Claude’s Aunt, Clementine, in Cannes, France in order to avoid the then- current Franco-Prussian War. It was this move that started his musical journey. In 1870, his aunt offered to pay for Claude to take piano lessons with an Italian violinist named Cerutti. After a year of lessons, he then grasped the attention of Madame Antionette Mauté de Fleurville, a family friend who had apparently taken lessons with Frédéric Chopin, even though there was no strong evidence that she had ever even done so. De Fleurville was ultimately impressed by his proficiency on the instrument. What astonished her even more was the fact that he had pure on an instrument that was most certainly foreign to the one who even
Claude Debussy
“Music is the expression of the movement of waters…” Nine words is what it takes to vividly put into perspective the life of Claude Debussy and how he composed his own music. Debussy wrote his music as if he were to trying to portray water; making his music flow, reflect, and permeate through the listener’s ears. Masterful compositions such as “Claire De Lune”, “Prelude” from the Suite Bergamasque, “Deux Arabesques”, and “Le Fille Aux Chevuex de Lin” resemble not only Debussy’s passion for music, but the extent to which he can express himself without words. Claude Debussy was a virtuosic man whose life, the beginning, middle, and end of it, befittingly relates to his music. Debussy was truly a maestro of the art of impressionistic music. Claude -ArAchille Debussy was born on August 22nd, 1862 in Saint-Germaine-En-Laye, France to Manuel-Achille Debussy and Victorine Manoury Debussy. His father was the owner of a China shop in Saint-Germaine-En-Laye and his mother was a seamstress. Claude was the eldest of five children. Four years later, in 1867, Claude and his family moved to Paris, France but then, in 1870, Claude and his pregnant mother left to live with Claude’s Aunt, Clementine, in Cannes, France in order to avoid the then- current Franco-Prussian War. It was this move that started his musical journey. In 1870, his aunt offered to pay for Claude to take piano lessons with an Italian violinist named Cerutti. After a year of lessons, he then grasped the attention of Madame Antionette Mauté de Fleurville, a family friend who had apparently taken lessons with Frédéric Chopin, even though there was no strong evidence that she had ever even done so. De Fleurville was ultimately impressed by his proficiency on the instrument. What astonished her even more was the fact that he had pure on an instrument that was most certainly foreign to the one who even