{"product_id":"debussy-claude-clair-de-lune-jose-d-aragon","title":"DEBUSSY, CLAUDE - CLAIR DE LUNE - JOSE D´ARAGON","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCLAUDE DEBUSSY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eClaude Debussy; (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eBorn to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eDebussy'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 sets of 24 Préludes and 12 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eWith early influences including Russian and Far Eastern music and works by Chopin, Debussy developed his own style of harmony and orchestral colouring, derided – and unsuccessfully resisted by much of the musical establishment of the day. His works have strongly influenced a wide range of composers including Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin, and the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans. Debussy died from cancer at his home in Paris at the age of 55 after a composing career of a little more than 30 years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p4\"\u003eClair de lune\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eSuite bergamasque is a piano suite by Claude Debussy. He began composing it around 1890, at the age of 28, but significantly revised it just before its 1905 publication. The popularity of the third movement, Clair de lune, has made it one of the composer's most famous works for piano, as well as one of the most famous musical pieces of all time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eThe composer was initially unwilling to use these relatively early piano compositions because they were not in his mature style, but in 1905 he accepted the offer of a publisher who thought they would be successful, given the fame Debussy had gained in the intervening fifteen years. While it is not known how much of the Suite was written in 1890 and how much was written in 1905, it is clear that Debussy changed the names of at least two of the pieces. **Passepied** had first been composed under the title Pavane, while Clair de lune was originally entitled Promenade sentimentale. These names come from poems by Paul Verlaine.[1] The title of the third movement of Suite bergamasque is taken from Verlaine's poem \"Clair de lune\", which refers to bergamasks in the opening stanza:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eVotre âme est un paysage choisi Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques. Your soul is like a landscape fantasy, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eWhere masks and bergamasks, in charming wise,Strum lutes and dance, just a bit sad to be Hidden beneath their fanciful disguise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Villa D'Aragon - Palacio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54106889093453,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0976\/4120\/1997\/files\/ClairdeluneJOSED_ARAGON.jpg?v=1781423862","url":"https:\/\/onlineshop.villadearagon.de\/products\/debussy-claude-clair-de-lune-jose-d-aragon","provider":"Villa D'Aragon - Palacio","version":"1.0","type":"link"}