“To search the press groups, associations, businessmen, sponsor for the site News-art-culture.com” A do, re, mi …. romantic to hear playing under ” Claire de lune”. You listen  and in same time you think to a poesy , can to be a  deep sentiment, can to be a nostalgia, can to be a sonata for pianoforte. What non can to be ?  You can imagining all; the human think  go you far away , he is without the end: it go you in nostalgia , it go you in love, it go you in desperation. You choose sentiment or a think? Debussy go you into his music. Claude Achille Debussy is birth to Saint Germain -en-Laye  in 22 Agosto 1862  and is death to Paris in 25 March 1918,  is been a French composer and pianist, the one of most important French composers , know in world as protagonist of musical symbolism. He enter in musical impressionism together Ravel , opposing him to  approach of his works.  He brings with him a extra musical formation with the symbolistic influence  from Verlaine to Mallarme. He is a romantic composer? The poesy by Verlaine is the model of inspiration? To can creating the poesy without the music ?

THE START OF A MUSICAL CARRIER , THE UNDENIABLE STYLE WITH THE MUSICAL TONALITY OF DEBUSSY

Debussy enter in life as a son of riche family  that becomes in time poor , he frequents ” Conservatoire national superieur  de musique  et de dance  de Paris” in1872-1884 , studying the pianoforte with A.F.Marmontel and the composition with E. Giraudi. With his talent he wins the prize ” Prix of Rome” in 1884 for the lyric scene ( L-enfant prodige imponente). His style of composer takes profile  during in his visits to Bayreuth in 1890-1891 listening the music by Gamelan of Giava. From Wagner he comes influenced of sing ” La demoiselle elue” and ”cinque poems de Baudelaire”. Instead his compositional bases comes from Verlaine with poems ” Ariettes oubliees, Trois melodies, Fetes galantes in capricious style. Into his music he creates  a harmony oscillate under the influence  from works by Mallarme in Prelude a apres-midi d-une faune. He is more interesting again as musical geniality and fluidity of rhythm , associating a  new color for the occidental music.

THE CURIOSITY OF DEBUSSY ENTER IN HIS COMPOSTIONS?

In orchestral music to meet the harmony and the velvet, exuberant  structure with the seduction in completely movements and the variety of shadows. In ballet are presents the forms , the bizarre harmony , the movement is free with the perfect and varies  pieces of piano. Into compositions of music for the pianoforte are describes the rococo décor with moderate cynicism and perplexity.  His music  principally is associated to a tonality , a melodic tonality with harmony to base monophonic , but diverse of harmonic tonality. There is a referment in his impressionistic visit with the national and international  influence as there are the visual impressionists from Orient , Spain an the waves of jazz in Golliwoggs and Cake-walk. Of nature he is a Wagnerian antic , but he is approach  to his music as conception of musical open and continue discourse  translated as an infinity melody. The musical discourse is makes with the little imagines of ballet, independent between them with the  harmonic language in alternation  of tons and semi mobility , a style that oscillate  between the neoclassicism in the baroque forms, in same time romantic with the eclectic manners. The music is concise , the innovation enter in exoticism  combining a synthesis   between the classic esthetic and modernism.  The sonority is mild and lightly , elaborating a rhythmic  and complexity writer in diverse works of abstracts proportions with the principles of symmetry and musical arithmetical  used in airy and in dematerialize compositions. His life is lively  between the love and the sentiments. He escapes of destiny  of violence and suicides acts from  loved women in own love  being convinced  of power and beauty of  women. A man that love really! He dies to Paris in 25 March 1918 during in the first Mondial war without permitting  give the honor , at the  Stat  funerals and ceremonies in burial moments. At fine of war there are celebrations from his death and again  come remember his works , his body is buried  in cemetery of Passy behind Trocadero. France recognized him in his musical geniality , celebrating his musical moments. 

DEBUSSY-S WORKS

Prelude à l’apres-midi d’un faune, La Mer, Nocturnes,  Printemps, Images :Gignes, Ibéria, Ronde de Printemps,….

The compositions for pianoforte : Preludes I, II, Images I, II, Claire de Lune, Estampes, Suite bergamasque,  Doux Arabesques,  Le Trouduce, Reverie,  Nocturne, Hommage à Haydn, La plus que lente, Le petit negres Six epigraphes antiques… 

Compositions theatrical: Pelléas et Mellisande,  Le roi Lear, Le martyre de Saint Sebastien, Jeux…

Music of chambre: Trio pour Violon, Violoncello et Piano,Rhapsodie pour saxophone et piano,Sonata pour flauto et arpa…

Compositions and the choir : Salut,  Printemps, Invocation,L’enfant prodique, La damoiselle élue, Ode à la France…

 Sings: Nuit d’etoiles, Beau soir,  Fleur del Blés,Mandoline,  Trois Chansons de France,  Trois Chansons de Bilitis,  Promesso lyriquesu, Fêtes galantes I, II,Trois mélodies, Ronde,…

 Written: Il signor  Croche antidilettante. 

The more celebrity remains  “Claire de Lune”.

Romantic search the impression in notes on the Varlaine-poesy and the melodic tonality enter under harmony waving the modernism. His compositions search a imagine of rococo and baroque with the symbolism between the lyrism and rhythmicity , creating a perfect symmetry in calculation of mathematic in linar movements  with the melodic tonality. He search the harmony , search the sonority, search the impression in shadows , in imagines airy , sometings that escapes  for found again  in sentiment. A soul escape , romantic , waving  under ”Claire de Lune” searching nostalgic the harmony and the beautiful  of life. From music of chamber arriving to ballet wanting  in bizarre imagines, interested of visuals impressions of Orient  and Spain , The innovative accent his style with the jazz effects for give a complexity of modernism , is seducing in tons , the notes make a continue and rhythmic  melody. Unmistakable , a symbolism lost in sentiments and nostalgia. We leave  Debussy in his romanticism with the shadow in sonority and melodic tons. Today, tomorrow ,….. is always present.