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Claude Debussy
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  • Waiting for her husband to leave on his business trips so she could play Debussy on the piano.  (source)
  • She passed her grade exam with a tiny piece by Debussy, so full of light and fun.  (source)
  • She sat down at the piano and began to play a piece by Debussy from memory.  (source)
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  • Debussy or Ravel or Massenet or Charpentier.†  (source)
  • The unlikely figure who captured the rarely uncritical hearts of my grandmother and Owen Meany was a shameless crowd pleaser, a musical panderer who chopped up Chopin and Mozart and Debussy into two —and three-minute exaggerated flourishes on a piano he played with diamond-studded hands.†  (source)
  • Some Beethoven and Debussy, mostly.†  (source)
  • Perhaps it was such mitigating qualities (permitting Sophie to perfect her French, which he considered a decadent language; allowing her mother to indulge her love for composers other than Wagner, triflers like Faure and Debussy and Scarlatti) that caused Sophie to accept without any conscious resentment his complete domination of her life even after she was married.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 = French composer known for atmospheric, impressionistic music
  • Debussy's 'Clair de Lune.†  (source)
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