Claude Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer, is one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature. It is a work of such imagination that it stands apart from ...

On last Sunday's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Classical Music, Catherine Bott asks 'What is impressionism in music?' Here's the remarkable story of the neglected, and possibly first, ...

‘Clair de lune’, meaning moonlight, was written by the Impressionist French composer Claude Debussy. Here’s everything you need to know about this piano masterpiece Claude Debussy started writing the ...

The special exhibition of the Lehman Collection, owned by the New York Metropolitan Museum, will be held at the National Museum of Korea in Yongsan, Seoul, until next March. As visitors’ footsteps ...

In the western suburbs of Paris 150 years ago today, a boy was born to an unassuming couple, proprietors of a china shop who had no great taste for music. But that little boy felt otherwise, and grew ...

Composed about 1893, Sérénade grotesque was originally entitled just Sérénade in the autograph. Admitting the influence of Chabrier's Bourée fantasque , written two years earlier, Ravel would return ...

While staying at a French seaside resort in the spring of 1889, the young Claude Debussy was at a musical crossroads. Like so many of his contemporaries, the young iconoclast Debussy was an acolyte of ...

In 1889, Achille-Claude Debussy, then in his mid-20s, was one of 30 million people to walk through the iron arches of the newly completed Eiffel Tower. Throughout that year, the arches served as the ...

Writing music about water came naturally to Claude Debussy. His father was a sailor and encouraged young Claude’s imagination with stories about vast waters and exotic lands. A family visit to Cannes, ...

The cycle Miroirs was first announced by Ravel to his fellow "Apaches" who eventually became dedicatees of all five pieces. Written in 1904-05, the cycle was premiered in 1906 in Salle Erard by ...