Claude Debussy’s Death – Cause and Date

The composer Claude Debussy died at the age of 55. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Composer best known for the timeless “Clair de Lune.” He was prominent in the evolution of Impressionist music and use of symbolism.

He was born to a father who was a salesman and a china-shop owner and a mother who was a seamstress. He carried on an eight-year affair with a Parisian lawyer’s wife beginning when he was 18. He had one daughter, Claude-Emma.  

Quotes

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How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling.

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The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.

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First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.

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I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

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Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.