What I am trying to do is something different — an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, espe… - Claude Debussy

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What I am trying to do is something different — an effect of reality, but what some fools call Impressionism, a term that is usually misapplied, especially by the critics who don't hesitate to apply it to Turner, the greatest creator of mysterious effects in the whole world of 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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Alternative Names: Debussy Claude Achille Debussy Achille Claude Debussy C. Debussy Claude-Achille Debussy Achille-Claude A. Cl. Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy
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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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