When it comes to heavyweight game-changers like Claude Debussy, super fans even celebrate death anniversaries. It was 100 years ago, March 25, 1918, that the visionary composer lost his battle with ...

Claude Debussy’s singular visit to Spain lasted only an hour or two, long enough to attend a bullfight. Even so, his contemporary Manuel de Falla declared Debussy’s Iberia to be more genuine than ...

Writing music about water came naturally to Claude Debussy. His father was a sailor and encouraged young Claude’s imagination with stories about vast waters and exotic lands. A family visit to Cannes, ...

SO MUCH has been said and written about Debussy that there would appear to be nothing to add that is not already known. There was a time, and it seems not so long ago, when this name aroused hot ...

When Víkingur Ólafsson was about 5 years old, he already knew what he wanted to be. "It sounds crazy, but I always saw myself as a concert pianist," he says. "Even if I wasn't a good pianist." Over ...

PARIS—One essential charm of "Debussy, Music and the Arts," just opened at the Musée de l'Orangerie, is that it offers a glimpse into the atmosphere of a certain Belle Epoque Paris. The décor of dark ...

Marking the 100th anniversary of the visionary composer's death, hear Debussy play his own music on a 1913 piano roll. Songs We Love: Debussy, 'La Plus Que Lente' When it comes to heavyweight ...