Debussy's Clair De Lune

Clair De Lune is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written. Debussy's genius shines throughout this piece.

Clair De Lune is the third movement of The Suite Bergamasque and is one of the most loved and revered piano suites of Debussy. It is a masterpiece from the Impressionist epoch, bringing to mind moonlight, mist, and raindrops.

The composition has been used in many movies.

* Seven Years In Tibet

* Down and Out in Beverly Hills

* Ocean's Eleven

* Pinnochio

*Beauty and the Beast

• Complete recording of Suite Bergamasque, Piano Society

Debussy was a French composer working within the embrace of Impressionistic music. He was one of the most important composers and was a prominent figure in European music. His music encapsulates the transition from Romantic to Modernist music. In literary circles, his music was known as Symbolism.

• Debussy began piano lessons at the age of 7
• At 11 he entered the Paris Conservatoire
• He later received a scholarship to Academie des Beaux-Arts
• He met Franz Liszt and was exposed to Wagner
• Debussy challenged established norms and was criticized for "courting the unusual"

Perhaps, Debussy said it best: "Let us at all costs preserve this magic peculiar to music . . . "

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