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Claude Debussy

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

CLAUDE DEBUSSY

AUGUST 22, 1862 - MARCH 25, 1918
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EARLY LIFE

  • Oldest of 5 children
  • He got a surprise paino
  • He went to paris conversatory at age 11
  • He won the prix de rome at age 22

PRIX DE ROME

  • He won 1
  • For Cantata L'Enfant prodigue
  • He got top prize and studided in
  • the Italian capital for 2 Years.
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FRANCE

  • He was born and died in France
  • When he was in Paris at age 55,
  • he got colon cancer, and died

20TH CENTURY

  • He did not want to play normal music
  • He made a new style of music, Impressionism.
  • He was an expert orchestrator

IMPRESSIONISM

  • It is a type of music that "conveys the mood or emotion
  • aroused by the subject rather that a detailed tone-picture"

EDUCATION

  • He was sent to the Paris Conservatory to-
  • study composition at age 11.
  • He stay there 11 years.

INSTRUMENTS

  • He family did not have alot of money,
  • so he started playing piano.
  • He Taught Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's kids piano.

OPERAS, JAVANESE GAMELAN

  • Javanese Gamelan consist of 4 things.
  • They consist of a variety of bells, gongs, and-
  • xylophones and sometimes vocals.

CLAIR DE LUNE

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LA MER

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