Claude Debussy

ACHILLE CLAUDE DEBUSSY Born: August 22, 1862, in Saint-Germain-en Laye, France Died: March 25, 1918 French composer who was the founder of the IMPRESSIONIST movement in music. He was a friend of poet, STEPHANE MALLARME.

"CLAIR DE LUNE" is a beautiful song, but it has bittersweet memories associated with it for me.

"In opera, there is always too much singing."

"How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling."

"Music is the silence between the notes."

"Music is made up of colours and barred rhythms."

"The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams."

Re music theory: "There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law."

"The century of aeroplanes deserves its own music. As there are no precedents, I must create anew."

"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."

DEBUSSY with his daughter.

THE INCREDIBLY RIDICULOUS MTV-ROLLING STONE'S 100 TOP SONGS (1963-2000): 37. O.P.P., NAUGHTY BY NATURE (1991) (I've never heard of the band or the song.) MY TOP 100 SONGS: WHITE ROOM, CREAM

POSTSCRIPT "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." IGOR STRAVINSKY

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