"an impact on tour in Brazil with his Ballets Russes. That year Villa-Lobos also met the French composer Darius Milhaud, who was in Rio as secretary to Paul Claudel at the French Legation. Milhaud brought the music of Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, and possibly Igor Stravinsky; in return Villa-Lobos introduced Milhaud to Brazilian street music. In 1918, he also met the pianist Arthur Rubinstein, who became a lifelong friend and champion; this meeting prompted Villa-Lobos to write more piano music. In about 1918 Villa-Lobos abandoned the use of opus numbers for his compositions as a constraint to his pioneering spirit."
"composer Claude Debussy, who was a resident of the Villa in 1886. In 1890, he became a member of the Société des Artistes Français and exhibited regularly at the Salon. Notable works from this later period include ""Naissance du Jour"" (Birth of Day, 1903), which is still widely reproduced, and an unconventional ""Sacred Heart"", inspired by his sadness over the loss of two sons in the First World War. It was a favorite of Teilhard de Chardin. He was a life long friend with another painter from Marseille, Alexandre Jean-Baptiste Brun. Later, his works became more conventional in style and"
"charm of life<br> While there is youth and the evening is fair,<br> For we shall go away; like water that is flowing: Into the sea, we to the tomb. Claude Debussy is well known for his impressionistic approach to music, although he hated the term ""impressionism"" and preferred being associated with the creation of new sounds and colors through the exploration of fluid rhythms, and whole tone and pentatonic scales. Throughout his life, Debussy composed a variety of works including music for piano, orchestra, and chamber ensembles. In addition, Debussy wrote many French art songs. Beau Soir was one of"
"J. S. Bach (1908, 1926 and 1931), the St John Passion of J. S. Bach (1914), in Beethoven's Choral Symphony (1926, and at the Beethoven centenary concert in 1927) and the 2nd part of ""L'enfance du Christ"" by Berlioz (1931). His son Ivan (born Daniel) Devriès (1909–97), great grandson of Théophile Gautier and Ernesta Grisi, was a composer and musician. David Devriès David Devriès (born February 14, 1881 in Bagnères-de-Luchon, France, died July 17, 1936 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was a French operatic lyric tenor noted for his light, heady tone, and polished phrasing. He represents a light style of French"
"influenced a wide range of composers including Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin, and the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. Debussy died from cancer at his home in Paris at the age of 55 after a composing career of a little more than 30 years. Debussy was born on 22 August 1862 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, on the north-west fringes of Paris. He was the eldest of the five children of Manuel-Achille Debussy and his wife, Victorine, ""née"" Manoury. Debussy senior ran a china shop and his wife was a seamstress. The shop was unsuccessful, and closed in 1864; the"
"Le Martyre de saint Sébastien Le Martyre de saint Sébastien is a five-act musical mystery play on the subject of Saint Sebastian, with a text written in 1911 by the Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio and incidental music by the French composer Claude Debussy (L.124). The work was produced in collaboration between Gabriele D'Annunzio (at that time living in France to escape his creditors) and Claude Debussy, and designed as a vehicle for Ida Rubinstein. Debussy's contribution was a large-scale score of incidental music for orchestra and chorus, with solo vocal parts (for a soprano and two altos). Debussy accepted the"
"the most prominent figures associated with impressionist music, best known for his ""Clair de lune"" and ""Feux d'artifice"", as well as for his piano suites ""Estampes"" (1903), ""Bergamasque"" (1890–1905) and Images (1905). He was a fervent admirer of Frédéric Chopin, after whom the asteroid was named. The official naming citation was published on 4 October 1990 (). 4492 Debussy 4492 Debussy, provisional designation """", is a dark and elongated background asteroid and binary system from the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 17 September 1988, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst at Haute-Provence Observatory in France. It"
"Leben und das Lied"" (Hugo Wolf -life and lied); ""Bruckner – Versuch eines Lebens"" (Bruckner – a tentative outline of his life); ""Claude Debussy""; ""Debussys Werke"" (Debussy's works – published after his death ); ""Johann Strauß""; ""Franz Lehár""; and ""Maria Jeritza"". Décsey died 12 March 1941 in Vienna. Ernst Décsey Professor Dr. Ernst Décsey (13 April 1870 – 12 March 1941), was an Austrian author and music critic. Décsey was born in Hamburg and studied law at the Vienna University. At the same time he completed professional training at the Vienna music school (""Konservatorium"") in piano, harmony and composition. From"
"Debussy to compose his famous piano piece, ""La cathédrale engloutie"".) For many years ""Le Roi d'Ys"" was considered unperformable, and it was not staged until 1888, when Lalo was 65 years old. Eight years earlier, he became a member of the Legion of Honour. He died in Paris in 1892, leaving several unfinished works, including his opera ""La jacquerie"", completed by Arthur Coquard. He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery. Lalo's son Pierre (6 September 18669 June 1943) was a music critic who wrote for ""Le Temps"" and other French periodicals from 1898 until his death. In 1962, composer"
"Claude Debussy), Jacques Ibert, ""les histoires"" (ten pieces for piano) (1923), Nellie Melba, Ricardo Viñes, Maurice Ravel, ""Miroirs"" (1906) , ""Menuet antique"" (1892), ""Histoires naturelles"" with Jane Bathori (1907), ""Sonate pour violon et piano"" (1927), ""Trois poèmes de Mallarmé"" (1914), Camille Saint-Saens (1860)., Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1888), Claude Debussy, "" Triptyque"" ""Estampes"" (1904), ""Le Promenoir des deux amants"" (1911), Alexander Scriabin (1896), Joseph Jongen, André Caplet , ""Conte fantastique"" with Micheline Kahn as the harpist, (1923) Vladimir de Pachmann (1882), Charles Valentin Alkan (1837) and (1880), Francis Poulenc, Reynaldo Hahn, pianist Édouard Risler (1908), Ernest Chausson, ""Viviane"" (1883), César Franck,"
"Henri Desmarets Henri Desmarets (February 1661 – 7 September 1741) was a French composer of the Baroque period primarily known for his stage works, although he also composed sacred music as well as secular cantatas, songs and instrumental works. Henri Desmarets was born into a modest Paris household in February 1661. His mother, Madeleine ""née"" Frottier, came from a bourgeois Parisian family. His father, Hugues Desmarets was a huissier in the cavalry at the Grand Châtelet. Desmarets' childhood was marked by his father's death when he was eight years old, his mother's subsequent re-marriage in 1670, and the death of"
"La cathédrale engloutie La Cathédrale engloutie (""The Submerged Cathedral"") is a prelude written by the French composer Claude Debussy for solo piano. It was published in 1910 as the tenth prelude in Debussy’s first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes each. It is characteristic of Debussy in its form, harmony, and content. This prelude is an example of Debussy's musical impressionism in that it is a musical depiction of, or allusion to, an image or idea. Debussy quite often named his pieces with the exact image that he was composing about, like ""La Mer"", ""Des pas sur la neige"","
"did not give his works opus numbers, apart from his String Quartet op. 10 in G minor (also the only work where the composer's title included a key). His works were catalogued and indexed by the musicologist François Lesure in 1977 (revised in 2003) and their Lesure number (""L"" followed by a number) is sometimes used as a suffix to their title in concert programmes and recordings. Debussy's musical development was slow, and as a student he was adept enough to produce for his teachers at the Conservatoire works that would conform to their conservative precepts. His friend Georges Jean-Aubry"
"in 2007. La cathédrale engloutie La Cathédrale engloutie (""The Submerged Cathedral"") is a prelude written by the French composer Claude Debussy for solo piano. It was published in 1910 as the tenth prelude in Debussy’s first of two volumes of twelve piano preludes each. It is characteristic of Debussy in its form, harmony, and content. This prelude is an example of Debussy's musical impressionism in that it is a musical depiction of, or allusion to, an image or idea. Debussy quite often named his pieces with the exact image that he was composing about, like ""La Mer"", ""Des pas sur"
"many French composers closely imitated them with variable success. Perhaps the most interesting response came from Claude Debussy. As in Wagner's works, the orchestra plays a leading role in Debussy's unique opera ""Pelléas et Mélisande"" (1902) and there are no real arias, only recitative. But the drama is understated, enigmatic and completely un-Wagnerian. Other notable 20th-century names include Ravel, Dukas, Roussel and Milhaud. Francis Poulenc is one of the very few post-war composers of any nationality whose operas (which include ""Dialogues des Carmélites"") have gained a foothold in the international repertory. Olivier Messiaen's lengthy sacred drama ""Saint François d'Assise"" (1983)"
"took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, ""Pelléas et Mélisande"". Debussy's orchestral works include ""Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune"" (1894), ""Nocturnes"" (1897–1899) and ""Images"" (1905–1912). His music was to a considerable extent a reaction against Wagner and the German musical tradition. He regarded the classical symphony as obsolete and sought an alternative in his ""symphonic sketches"", ""La mer"" (1903–1905). His piano works include two books of Préludes and two of Études. Throughout his career he wrote ""mélodies"" based on a wide variety"
"Josquin des Prez Josquin des Prez (; – 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a French composer of the Renaissance. His original name is sometimes given as Josquin Lebloitte and his later name is given under a wide variety of spellings in French, Italian, and Latin, including and . His motet ""Illibata Dei virgo nutrix"" includes an acrostic of his name, where he spelled it ""Josquin des Prez"". He was the most famous European composer between Guillaume Dufay and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and is usually considered to be the central figure of the Franco-Flemish School."
"Alfred Desenclos Alfred Desenclos (7 February 1912 – 31 March 1971) was a French composer of (modern) classical music. Desenclos was a self-described ""romantic"" whose music is highly expressive and atmospheric and rooted in rigorous compositional technique. To support his family, Desenclos had to renounce continuing his general studies and work as an industrial designer until the age of 20, but in 1929, he entered the Conservatory in Roubaix, France, to study piano. Until that time, he had played only as an amateur. His sacred music belongs to the tradition begun by Saint-Saëns and continued by Fauré. He won the"
"of poetry, including his own. He was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poetic movement of the later 19th century. A small number of works, including the early ""La Damoiselle élue"" and the late ""Le Martyre de saint Sébastien"" have important parts for chorus. In his final years, he focused on chamber music, completing three of six planned sonatas for different combinations of instruments. With early influences including Russian and far-eastern music, Debussy developed his own style of harmony and orchestral colouring, derided – and unsuccessfully resisted – by much of the musical establishment of the day. His works have strongly"
"as well as Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764) who was then rediscovered. Louis Laloy Louis Laloy ( Gray, 18 February 1874 – Dole, 4 March 1944 ) was a French musicologist, writer and sinologist. A Doctor of Letters (he spoke French, English, German, Italian, Latin, Russian, Greek and Chinese), he became an eminent musicologist, music critic, co-founder of ""Le Mercure musical"", teacher at the Sorbonne and at the Paris Conservatory, and Secretary General of the Paris Opera. He is associated with many prominent artists and composers. He was a friend and the first biographer of Claude Debussy and wrote books on his"
"messages. Christus (Liszt) Christus (S.3, composed 1862-1866) is an oratorio by the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. The oratorio takes the traditional plot of Jesus Christ's life from his birth to his passion and resurrection, using Bible texts, and is thus somewhat reminiscent of another famous religious work, ""Messiah"" by George Frideric Handel. When Liszt, after his prolific Weimar years, moved to Rome in 1861, the majority of his works for the next ten years would be religious music for choir. The composition of his most famous oratorio, ""Christus"", occupied Liszt from 1862 to 1866, with shorter or longer"
"Christus (Liszt) Christus (S.3, composed 1862-1866) is an oratorio by the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt. The oratorio takes the traditional plot of Jesus Christ's life from his birth to his passion and resurrection, using Bible texts, and is thus somewhat reminiscent of another famous religious work, ""Messiah"" by George Frideric Handel. When Liszt, after his prolific Weimar years, moved to Rome in 1861, the majority of his works for the next ten years would be religious music for choir. The composition of his most famous oratorio, ""Christus"", occupied Liszt from 1862 to 1866, with shorter or longer pauses."
"army singer Ernest GENVAL. Amongst his compositions from during World War I, which were songs used by the soldiers, we find: - Les Yasses - Hymne à Liège - Le Rondeau de la Marraine - La Chanson des Exilés - Dors mon P'tiot - Berceuse, en attendant l'Absent Jean de Smetsky Jean de Smetsky is the artist name of Jean Desmet. He was born in Gent (Belgium) in 1885 and died in Gentbrugge (Belgium) in 1954. He was married and had three daughters. He is best known for his music compositions for piano, bands and orchestras. He was a soldier"
"Claudin de Sermisy Claudin de Sermisy (c. 1490 – 13 October 1562) was a French composer of the Renaissance. Along with Clément Janequin he was one of the most renowned composers of French chansons in the early 16th century; in addition he was a significant composer of sacred music. His music was both influential on, and influenced by, contemporary Italian styles. Sermisy was most likely born either in Picardy, Burgundy, or Île-de-France, based on the similarity of his surname to place names there. Sometime in his early life he may have studied with Josquin des Prez, if Pierre Ronsard is"
"Désiré (baritone) Désiré (29 December 1823 – September 1873) was a French baritone, who is particularly remembered for creating many comic roles in the works of the French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach. Désiré was a stage name; the artist's real name was Amable Courtecuisse, but for most of his life he was generally known as Désiré. He was born in Lille, or a nearby village, and studied bassoon, singing, and declamation at the Lille Conservatory. His first appearances were at small theatres in Belgium and northern France beginning in 1845. In 1847, he arrived at the Théâtre Montmartre in Paris"
"and also worked with the French operetta composer Charles Lecocq. At the end of his career Désiré became increasingly addicted to alcohol and died, abandoned and in poverty, in Asnières-sur-Seine. Works by Offenbach unless otherwise noted: In 1867 he also appeared at the Théâtre des Nouveautés as Sganarelle in ""La statue du commandeur"". Désiré (baritone) Désiré (29 December 1823 – September 1873) was a French baritone, who is particularly remembered for creating many comic roles in the works of the French operetta composer Jacques Offenbach. Désiré was a stage name; the artist's real name was Amable Courtecuisse, but for most"
"Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"", the ""Italian Symphony"", the ""Scottish Symphony"", the overture ""The Hebrides"", his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His ""Songs Without Words"" are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism"
"Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel (; ; 7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Born to a music-loving family, Ravel attended France's premier music college, the Paris Conservatoire; he was not well regarded by its conservative establishment, whose biased treatment of him caused a scandal. After leaving the conservatoire, Ravel found his own way as a composer, developing a style"
"Capilla Flamenca. MEW 0852. Contains recordings of ""Vos quid admiramini virginem / Gratissima virginis / Gaude gloriosa"" and ""Adesto sancta trinitas / Firmissime fidem / Alleluia Benedicta"" by Philippe de Vitry. Philippe de Vitry Philippe de Vitry (31 October 1291 – 9 June 1361) was a French composer, music theorist and poet. He was an accomplished, innovative, and influential composer, and may also have been the author of the ""Ars Nova"" treatise. He was widely acknowledged as the greatest musician of his day, with Petrarch writing a glowing tribute, calling him: ""... the keenest and most ardent seeker of truth,"
"that some have seen this as a reference to the composers Gustav Mahler and Arnold Schoenberg, both born Jewish. In 1912 Debussy had remarked to his publisher of the opera ""Ariane et Barbe-bleue"" by the (also Jewish) composer Paul Dukas, ""You're right, [it] is a masterpiece – but it's not a masterpiece of French music."" Despite his lack of formal schooling, Debussy read widely and found inspiration in literature. Lesure writes, ""The development of free verse in poetry and the disappearance of the subject or model in painting influenced him to think about issues of musical form."" Debussy was influenced"
"man capable of such atrocities."" Saint-Saëns had been a member of the Institut since 1881: Debussy never became one. His health continued to decline; he gave his final concert (the premiere of his Violin Sonata) on 14 September 1917 and became bedridden in early 1918. Debussy died on 25 March 1918 at his home. The First World War was still raging and Paris was under German aerial and artillery bombardment. The military situation did not permit the honour of a public funeral with ceremonious graveside orations. The funeral procession made its way through deserted streets to a temporary grave at"
"in France, Switzerland and Italy, as well as at her home in Moscow. He composed his Piano Trio in G major for von Meck's ensemble, and made a transcription for piano duet of three dances from Tchaikovsky's ""Swan Lake"". At the end of 1880 Debussy, while continuing in his studies at the Conservatoire, was engaged as accompanist for Marie Moreau-Sainti's singing class; he took this role for four years. Among the members of the class was Marie Vasnier; Debussy was greatly taken with her, and she inspired him to compose: he wrote 27 songs dedicated to her during their seven-year"
"were to know later – the lover of vague outlines, of half-lights, of mysterious consonances and dissonances of colour, the apostle of languor, the exclusivist in thought and in style."" During the next few years Debussy developed his personal style, without, at this stage, breaking sharply away from French musical traditions. Much of his music from this period is on a small scale, such as the ""Deux arabesques"", ""Valse romantique"", ""Suite bergamasque"", and the first set of ""Fêtes galantes"". Newman remarked that like Chopin, the Debussy of this period appears as a liberator from Germanic styles of composition – offering"