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Debussy, Claude-Achille

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DEBUSSY, CLAUDE-ACHILLE. - Musician, b.
at St-Germain-en-Laye (Paris) on 22 Aug. 1862, d.
in Paris on 26 March 1918. An artist of great originality, he is the most brilliant representative of so-called
musical impressionism, a label that nevertheless
does not exhaust the multiform aspects of his work.

For the theater he wrote Pelléas et Mélisande, Paris
1902, taken from the drama by M. Maeterlinck, and Le
Martyre de st Sébastien, incidental music for the mystery
play by G. d'Annunzio, a production condemned by the archbishop of Paris (Paris 1911). His musical writings were
selected and collected in the volume Monsieur Croche antidilettante (1921).

Bibliography6 works

BIBL.: L. Laloy, C. D., Paris 1909; C. Koechlin, D., ibid. 1927; M. Boucher, D., ibid. 1930; A. Liess, D., Strasbourg 1936; R. Paoli, D., Florence 1940; L. Vallas, A. C. D., Paris 1940.

Luigi Ronge

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV (1950), coll. 1259–1260.

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Ronga, Luigi. “Debussy, claude-achille.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, coll. 1259–1260. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950. https://azioneromana.com/article/debussy-claude-achille.

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Ronga, Luigi. “Debussy, claude-achille.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. IV, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1950, coll. 1259–1260. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/debussy-claude-achille.

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@incollection{ec4_debussy_claude_achille,
  author    = {Ronga, Luigi},
  title     = {Debussy, claude-achille},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {IV},
  pages     = {1259--1260},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1950},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/debussy-claude-achille}
}

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