![]() ![]() That’s why he was a frequent visitor to Mallarmé. The musician was a reader of Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and others thus, the music that Debussy composed had an essential affinity with the works of these masters of literature, as well as that of the Impressionist painters. Among his most important works include the Quartet in G minor (1893) and the Prelude to the siesta of a faun (1894), his first mature orchestral composition written at 32 years based on a poem by the symbolist writer Stéphane Mallarmé. Among these works are the symphonic suite Printemps and a cantata, ‘ La señorita elegida’, based on the poem ‘The blessed maiden’ by the British writer Dante Gabriel Rossetti.ĭuring the decade of 1880, the works of Debussy were performed frequently, and in spite of its by then controversial nature began to value him as a composer. In accordance with the requirements of the prize, he studied in Rome where he settled in the Medici villa for two years and presented regularly, but without too much luck, new compositions to the Grand Prix committee. Debussy won in 1884 the coveted Grand Prix of Rome for his cantata ‘ El hijo prodigal’. During his stay in Russia, he learned the music of composers such as Alexandr Borodin, Mili Balakirev and Modest Musorgski, as well as Russian and gypsy folklore. In 1879 he traveled to Florence, Venice, Vienna and Moscow as a private musician of Nadejda von Meck, patron of the Russian composer Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye on Augand trained at the Paris Conservatory, where he began studying at the age of ten. ![]() He was the founder of the so-called impressionist school of music. Claude Debussy was a French composer whose harmonic innovations opened the way to the radical musical changes of the 20th century. ![]()
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