Claude Debussy was tired of writing the same type of music in the 1890s. The grand Romantics -- Camille Saint-Saens, Antonin Dvorak, Giacomo Puccini and Guiseppe Verdi -- were still the style. Debussy ...

Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...

It begins with one of the most famous flute lines in history… and played deftly by the Principle flute of the Philharmonia Orchestra, Samuel Coles. [Music sample of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun] ...

4 Extra Debut. People share stories of how Debussy's beautiful Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune has affected their lives. From 2018. Show more Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun ...

A soft flute solo opens Claude Debussy’s “Prelude a l’apres-midi d’un faune” — “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun.” One by one, the remaining wind sections join the flute and a dream-like fantasy ...

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Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Bound only lightly to the past, it floats in time. As it coalesces, bar by bar, it appears to be improvising itself into being—which ...

Claude Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun speaks to artists of different kinds. Jamaican poet Ishion Hutchinson recalls hearing it through an open window in Kingston Jamaica and being ...