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Claude Debussy
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  • Debussy disliked the term, "impressionist music", when applied to his compositions.
  • Debussy or Ravel or Massenet or Charpentier.†   (source)
  • "Keep her away from Debussy," she overheard the doctors warn him.†   (source)
  • Waiting for her husband to leave on his business trips so she could play Debussy on the piano.†   (source)
  • He flipped open a compartment under his car's CD player, pulled out one of thirty or so CDs that were jammed into the small space, and handed it to me, "Debussy to this?†   (source)
  • PHI appeared in the organizational structures of Mozart's sonatas, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, as well as the works of Bartók, Debussy, and Schubert.†   (source)
  • "Debussy's 'Clair de Lune."†   (source)
  • Behind Monet and Debussy the umbrella persisted, with the steady beat of a drum.†   (source)
  • Fanny made me swear to do three things while I was in Paris: get her the score of the last Debussy songs, go to the Grand-Guignol and see Madame Olenska.†   (source)
  • Considering it, the mind reeled under visions of the feasts of Elagabalus; and the subtle harmonies of Debussy mingled with the musty, fragrant romance of chests in which have been kept old clothes, ruffs, hose, doublets, of a forgotten generation, and the wan odour of lilies of the valley and the savour of Cheddar cheese.†   (source)
  • If Monet's really Debussy, and Debussy's really Monet, neither gentleman is worth his salt—that's my opinion."†   (source)
  • His brain might be full of names, he might have even heard of Monet and Debussy; the trouble was that he could not string them together into a sentence, he could not make them "tell," he could not quite forget about his stolen umbrella.†   (source)
  • "Debussy's La Men. Do you like it?"   (source)
    Debussy = famous French composer said to have created Impressionism in music
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