Achille-Claude Debussey - Moonlight
“There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because I love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.” Achille-Claude Debussy (a-kill-ee / clod / day-buse-say) was born near Paris in the town of St. Germain-en-Laye. Young children are usually not capable of, nor are they mature enough to understand passion. However Achille-Claude Debussey was as far from “usual” as a child can be. As a small child Debussey found his life’s passion to be music and wasted little time paying attention to anything else. While attending the Paris Conservatory, he shocked his professors when at the tender age of ten he was already composing and reading music at an adult level. As unusual of a child Debussey was, so too his musical style became. He crafted and mastered his unique musical style to the point at which it now serves as a model that is followed by many contemporary composers. He was a tonal composer yet his harmonies were not within the tradition of that time. He strived to break the
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