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(Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He 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 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.
Most Popular Claude Debussy Trailers
Total trailers found: 64
01 January 2013
Framed by the tranquil beauty of a forest near Berlin, Khatia Buniatishvili gives a recital of pianistic masterpieces dappled by the shade of verdant ferns and leafy canopies.
25 October 2000
Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday.
24 September 2007
Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007.
28 January 1940
An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère".
01 January 2021
Slovenian conductor Martina Batič and the Radio France Choir offers an eclectic programme combining Wagner, Debussy, Fauré and Poulenc.
15 December 2015
Thriller, intimate play, relationship drama: Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande is all that and much more.
30 August 2024
Totsuko is a high school student with the ability to see the 'colors' of others. Colors of bliss, excitement, and serenity, plus a color she treasures as her favorite.
18 November 1987
Version of the fairy tale "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs"; unlike this one, the young charcoal-burner's son, who has been prophesied as the hard-hearted king's successor - which he is determined to prevent - has a begrudging foster brother.
05 March 2023
Created during Carter and Ben’s ISS (In School Suspension) as a documentation of the day and examination of the isolating effects of it, Made in the Cell is an amateur documentary about shenanigans and boredom.
01 January 2025
At the Lightroom in London, pianist Yuja Wang offers an extraordinary recital at the heart of the immersive exhibition devoted to David Hockney.
12 May 1999
A featurette directed by French actress Edwige Shaki where Eric Rohmer worked as a technical adviser, THE CURVE is a movie that has the inimitable Rohmer stamp.
15 March 1952
The historic Toscanini television concerts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Broadcast #8 was of a concert on March 15, 1952, at Carnegie Hall, featuring Sibelius's En Saga, two of Debussy's Nocturnes, and Franck's Redemption.
30 July 2016
Animation by Kohei Nakaya.
01 May 2016
In this strikingly modern 2016 production from the Zurich Opera House, Tcherniakov transposes the opera’s intrigue from forest and castle to living room and psychiatric office.
16 April 2016
In 1969 Argentine filmmaker Hugo Santiago directed Invasión, his opera prima, written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, and later settled in France.
01 September 2018
The Yellow Lounge is nowhere more true to its reputation of bringing classical music to unusual spaces than here in the stunning setting inside MORI Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo.
31 May 1965
She was the nymph who found refuge in the river reeds when the goat-god Pan pursued her. Syrinx is the first film of Ryan Larkin, a young artist from Norman McLaren’s student group.
27 October 2018
Jerome Robbins considered the Paris Opera Ballet as his second home after the New York City Ballet. This production in his honour brings together works displaying the infinite diversity of his sources of inspiration and his genius on stage.
31 July 1996
Short film by Kamienska Elżbieta.
28 January 2021
Filmed in January 2021
30 June 1994
Short film by Kamienska Elżbieta.
01 January 1930
A silent short film from artist Adaline Kent with moments captured from her wedding to Robert Boardman Howard and their subsequent honeymoon.
09 August 1993
Short film by Jacek Kasprzycki.
31 December 1987
John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestra of the Opéra National de Lyon in this 1987 production of Claude Debussy’s opera of jealously and love denied, “Pelléas et Mélisande”, starring Colette Alliot-Lugaz and François Le Roux in the lead roles.
13 November 2019
"The world is a tarantula ... a big, dark tarantula, moving around weaving its own web." A journey into myths and origins of the world with the grand dame of Argentine avant-garde cinema.
17 May 1931
Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women.
12 March 1976
An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music.
07 July 1993
50 years of Brazilian history seen from the point of view of a friendship among two intellectuals.
04 October 2023
Troubled and alone, a boxer moves in with his long-lost mother and autistic pianist brother — but must fit in with a family he hasn't known for years.
01 January 2022
Under the baton of charismatic Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Orchestre de Paris performs Olivier Messiaen's most famous work: The ambitious and beguiling Turangalîla-Symphonie.
15 July 1966
Part of the "Video-Film Concert" collection released by EAI. From 1966 - 1972.
01 May 2022
Summertime. In a camping, three little girls listen to an old mysterious story about a missing kid. They start to investigate.
12 February 1984
Sebastian, Chief Archer in the Roman Army, converts to Christianity. A favorite of Emperor Augustus, Sebastian's devotion to Christ eventually drives him to reject the Emperor's love, causing the Emperor to angrily order Sebastian to be shot with arrows by his fellow archers.
01 January 2021
The Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France performs a programme of French and Russian works with celebrated British conductor John Eliot Gardiner and acclaimed German violinist Isabelle Faust.
01 January 2015
Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano join forces for this energetic and joyful collaboration on the stage of the international Heidelberger Frühling (Heidelberg Spring) festival, held annually since 1997 in March and April in the romantic German city.
17 September 1948
A famous pianist, invited by a girl, becomes interested in her sister, who pretends to be mute to hide a pronunciation defect.
01 January 1992
He became a legend in his own lifetime. A Symbolist poet, artist, photographer, art historian, translator, lecturer, and local historian — Maximilian Voloshin, known simply as Max.
10 March 1981
Hugues cannot get over the untimely death of his wife Blanche, who made him happy for ten years. He lives alone in his house in Bruges, a city he would like to be dead like his wife.
18 November 2021
The story of a girl, after a breakup, removing her makeup and finding herself again in grief. About life, places, being yourself wherever you are, in love, and not losing yourself, moving through things.
15 May 2026
A concert where German and French Romanticism engage in a dialogue, revealing as many differences as they do similarities.
01 February 1942
"Clair de Lune" was fully animated and scored when it was deleted from Fantasia in early 1940, a casualty of Fantasia's excessive length.
26 May 2018
Wylie carries a telescope through the streets of Los Angeles to offer passersby a new and closer look at a familiar object: the moon.
01 January 1993
A cinematographic attempt at a maximum of exertion and a maximum of relaxation based on the thoughts of John Cage, Chuang Tzu and others.
14 May 2025
Pianists Alice Sara Ott and Francesco Tristano have been close friends for several years now and they are back together again for this high-flying duet at the Auditorium de Radio France.
14 March 2024
Liubov Nosova won second prize at the 2024 edition of La Maestra. Here's a look back at her journey through this prestigious competition for female conductors.
14 March 2024
Bar Avni is the third major winner of the La Maestra conducting competition. Relive the highlights that convinced the jury in the 2024 edition.
01 January 2015
From the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa, Andrea Bacchetti performs piano music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Diemer, Schumann, Debussy, Malipiero, Chopin, Rossini, Hasse, and Villa-Lobos.
16 November 2004
Claude Debussy's fairy tale-based opera Pelléas et Mélisande is by now well known; at once a tale of doomed love and a meditation on the cycle of creation and destruction (adapted from Maurice Maeterlinck's 1893 symbolist play), it originally premiered in 1902 to mixed critical reception, but has since become a staple of the operatic repertory and one of the most popular works from Debussy's canon.
01 January 2024
Conductor Riccardo Minasi, flutist Emmanuel Pahud and the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra join forces for a concert dedicated to Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn.
11 November 2024
Rapid montage of still images assembled from detritus dumped off my camera roll, collected over the past five to ten years.
08 August 1980
Petrushka, Le Spectre De La Rose, and L'Apres Midi D'une Faune performed by Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet as a tribute to the legacy of Vaslav Nijinsky.
01 January 2025
Julia Fischer sublimates Brahms's Violin Concerto alongside the Orchestre National de France, conducted by Cristian Măcelaru.
30 November 2021
Duality, ephemeral existence, living nature, transient love, spontaneous happiness, hidden sadness, tragicomedy, luminous radiation emanating from our voices, an aura that shines in the darkness.
01 January 2023
Invited to the Philharmonie de Paris, the virtuoso Yuja Wang performs a programme of Maurice Ravel's two piano concertos, conducted by Klaus Mäkela.
01 January 2023
Dancers from the Compagnie Hervé Koubi take over the Château d'Ormesson for Sur Mesure. This performance, a blend of dance and acrobatics, is brought to life by Quatuor Voce and Jasser Haj Youssef.
01 January 2021
The French National Orchestra, conducted by musical director Cristian Macelaru, performs French repertoire from Berlioz to Offenbach in a festive concert.
