Claude Debussy

Does anyone here love Debussy? One of my fav. pieces is Reverie.

 

Would you care to marry me?
I love Debussy - I'm a piano player/composer - he was my first ever influence.
The Childrens Suite is one of my favourites
If you like Debussy - try 'Songs Of The Auvergne' by Joseph Canterloupe - has a similar feel.

 

Haha, well, one of the reasons I like Reverie is because it doesn't have many sharps or flats like some of his other work. I don't mind flats, but I always screw up when I have to play like 4 or 5 sharps.

 

F sharp is one of the most ambient keys to play in - but also the most complicated as far as reading music goes.If you press the sustain pedal and run your forefinger across all the black notes - you get a kind of accoustic 'sunrise' - it's one of the first things I ever tried that got me into piano.Prince (yeah - prince!) wrote a piece called 'Venus de Milo' on the Parade album where he does does this - check that out too.Sorry - I'm always inflicting my musical suggestions on other people

 

good stuff indeed

 

Funny... I was a music major, and even having taken a course on Modernism, I still don't know Debussy well at all. Quite bad of me, really....

 

Does Debussy come under modernism? I thought he was of the Romantic era - but I have known I'm very wrong

 

my favorite debussy is Le Petit Negre.

 

Yes, Debussy is modern, he was around in WWI, he was way after the Romantic Period

 

debussy was the around the beginning of modernism. he had a lot of allegiances to the french symbolist movement, which lasted a little over a decade. studying general aesthetic priniciples of impressionism is a great way to get to know him and his music. his music does tend to remind me of monet's giverny paintings. anyways, yeah, debussy is special.

 

oh yeah, forgot to say, debussy is great to study in relation to wagner. its really eye opening to look at who influenced debussy and who was influenced by him. its a bit good!!! lol

 

Yeah Debussy said Wagner was 'a beautiful sunset mistaken for a dawn', cos he stretched Romanticism to the utmost limits but didn't actually break into something new, whereas Prelude a l'apres midi d'un faun did.

 

Debussy was part of my Impressionism general study in school this year. We only got to listen to Reflets dans l'eau and Claire de Lune,but still lovely stuff. I was listening to some of his work while dancing with my girlfriend yesterday,it was great.

Go Debussy,go!

 

prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune (or somethin like that)
wonderful stuff +)

 

But it's funny, because apparently there were few things Debussy hated more than the Reverie, which was snatched up and published without his consent, and then of course became his most famous piece, kind of like how Cobain loathed Smells Like Teen Spirit.
And now I hate myself for mentioning Debussy and Cobain in the same paragraph,

 

I got real into Debussy and other folks from his era about a two years ago. One of my favorites is the Sunken Cathedral.
Playing lots of sharps and flats is always a bitch on piano, especially accidentals. I guess it would help if my mind could actually function when working in sharps. I'm a brass player, why do I need sharps anyway?

 

I love Debussy. I love all his stuff from Preludes books 1 and 2. I've tried playing some of it, and it's really not easy.

 

I love Estampes: 1. Pagodes

It was the first song I heard by him and I heard it played my someone on stage. I was hooked that moment.

 

Debussy was an impresionist was one of the first musical composers of the impressionest movment. He even hung out with the painters Claude Monet, Henri Matice ect.

I'm partial to "girl with flaxin hair"

 

i only hear his name in my music classic