There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren trad… - Claude Debussy
" "There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l 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.
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About Claude Debussy
Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer, prominent in the style commonly referred to as Impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term.
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Claude Achille Debussy
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Achille Claude Debussy
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C. Debussy
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Claude-Achille Debussy
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A. Cl. Debussy
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Achille-Claude Debussy
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