Such were the suites for the Nocturnes orchestra (1899), The Sea (1905) and The Images (1912).
DEBUSSY COMPOSITIONS SERIES
The composer's favorite genre was the program suite (orchestral and piano), as it were, a series of diverse paintings, where the landscape statics were set off by fast-moving, often danceable rhythms. He used higher primary tones and created his own style. With a striking personality, he avoided using the usual harmonious arrangements and created innovative organization of his musical ideas. In his musical compositions, Debussy neglected the established forms used by the Classics and early Romantics. The love story where, according to the composer, the characters "do not reason, but undergo their life and fate". The influence of symbolism was most fully reflected in the only opera by Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande (1892-1902), written to the text of the drama by Maurice Maeterlinck.
In this musical illustration of the eclogue by Mallarmé, a peculiar, subtly nuanced orchestral Debussy style was developed.
The images of the Symbolist poetry inspired his first mature orchestral work - the prelude “The Afternoon of a Faun” (1894). Some of them (“Wonderful Evening”, “Mandolin”) were created when he was studying at the Conservatory. The composer early works - the romances to the words of Paul Verlaine, Paul Bourget, Pierre Louÿs, and Charles Baudelairel. The musicality of symbolist poetry, the search for mysterious connections between the soul existence and the world of nature, their mutual dissolution - all this attracted Debussy and in many ways shaped his aesthetics. Modest Mussorgsky was his favorite composer.ĭebussy was be fascinated by the society of Symbolist poets headed by Stéphane Mallarmé. He was captured by the brilliance of timbres and fine figurativeness, the picturesqueness of music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, the freshness of harmonies by Alexander Borodin. Vague and indefinable phenomena attracted his attention and his music reflected it.ĭebussy was very fond of Russian music. He employed higher primary tones and created innovative musical style.ĭebussy’s conception of musical composition differed from that of the contemporary composers. Possessing striking individuality, he avoided the usual harmonic arrangements that were generally accepted in those years. He disregarded the established forms of musical composition used by the Classicists and early Romanticists. This may have been due to his vision and high romantic ideals. He seemed to have been unaffected by adverse criticism. Severely criticized, he received praise and prizes. He was winning prize after prize, and at the early age, he showed distinct individuality. While the years in Conservatoire his mastery was developing very rapidly, the boy demonstrated continual achievements. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.īorn to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. Claude Debussy is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer.
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