Claude Debussy - Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
OK, we are officially in the weirdest time ever, with the whole State
of California having been mandated to "stay home". At a time like this,
most of all we need calm, comfort, and music to soothe our souls.
Today
will be a day of adjustment for many of us as we restructure our lives
to fit this crisis. Here is an 18-minute soundtrack to help you get
through the day.
Claude Debussy (22
August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes
seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously
rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the
late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Born
to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy
showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to
France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He
originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative
composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative
professors. He his first compositions were published when he was 25,
and he took many years to develop his mature style. He was nearly 40
when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he
completed, Pelléas et Mélisande. This sonata was part
of a set of chamber music pieces he wrote later in life. It was composed
in 1915 and had its first performance the following year. It is now a
standard of the chamber music repertoire. Debussy died from cancer at
his home in Paris at the age of 55 after a composing career of a little
more than 30 years.
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