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Beginning piano lessons at a very young age, Debussy's progress was so remarkable that he was able to enter the Paris Conservatory at the age of eleven. He remained at the Conservatory for over ten years, alternately claiming prizes and perplexing his teachers with his harmonic ideas. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1884, and by 1887 had begun attending the meetings of the Symbolist poets in Montmarte. The credo of the Symbolists was that art should appeal to the senses before the intellect. Debussy ... fell under the influence of the French Impressionist painters of the day, in their concentration on color for its own sake and the play of light on sufaces. Both of these schools would become crucial to Debussy's developing musical style.
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Debussy's first wife was named Lily. Emma Bardac was his second wife and they met through Faure. Claude-Emma is their daughter. Maurice Ravel is often compared to Debussy, and was an important disciple of Debussy. In Paris 1918, he had cancer and it made him lose interest in music. He died in 1918 when Germans bombed France.
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The final concert is a Debussy recital by the respected pianist Ronald Farren-Price. A few hundred students and pale music lovers fill the hall. The concert begins around dusk, while the sun outside gives way to the elegant lights inside. The applause is already intense as the world-renowned ‘local boy’ enters the hall, sporting a classic tuxedo and bow tie. Without fuss, he sits down at the keyboard and commences his performance.
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Afterwards, as critics from around the world poured out of the Debussy, they were swarmed by two dozen camera crews looking, finally, for the first whiff of reaction to the long-awaited adaptation of Dan Brown's mega-bestseller. Used to being on the other side of the camera, these members of the Fifth Estate could only shake their heads in astonishment, complaining about how many times Hanks and Tautou seemed to conveniently avoid capture by French police.
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Debussy was crazy about the writings of Edgar Allen Poe which may tell you about his mental limitations. According to Lederer, two of Debussy's operas (which, thank god, never saw the light of day) were based on Poe's short stories. Le Diable dans le Beffroi --- "The Devil in the Belfry" --- was supposed to consist mostly of the devil whistling. Make of that what you will.
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"Goldfish," although it may have been inspired by a Japanese (not Javanese!) print owned by Debussy, owes very little to specific gamelan techniques. The glistening and flashing movements of goldfish may be suggested in the first theme:
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