Debussy

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-By: David Barrientos, Óscar Lapuente and Víctor Luri.

Transcript of Debussy

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-By: David Barrientos, Óscar Lapuente and Víctor Luri.

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-Who was Debussy.

-Family.

-Works.

-Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

-Curiosities.

-Questions.

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-Achille-Claude Debussy was one of the best composers of the romanticism.

-He was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the 22 of August of 1862 and he died the 25 of March of 1918.

-He was the eldest of five children.

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Manuel- Achille Debussy Victorine Manoury Debussy

-Claude

-Adele Clementine

-Emmanuel

-Alfred.

-Eugene Octave

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-His father owned a china shop and was a salesman.

-His mother was a salesman.

-Claude Debussy had a very hard childhood , because his father spend in prison great part of his infancy.

-His brothers and sisters weren't famous at all, and there are very few information about them.

-He married Emma Moyse Bardac, the wife of a banker, and he had with her his only son, a girl.

-Debussy with his daughter.

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-He developed his own musical language largely independent of Wagner style.

-The most important composition of Debussy was Clair de Lune.

- He wrote a lot of compositions for the piano.

-He wrote some compositions with the help of André Caplet, one of his best friends.

-Other compositions: Gardens in the rain, Romance and Reverie.

-Debussy and Caplet.

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-Is a commune located in the western suburbs of Paris.

-It distance 19.1 km from the centre of the French capital.

-It has 38.000 inhabitants.

-The church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye. - The castle of Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

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-He used to sleep in the day, and work in the night, in one word, he was nighthawk

-Before marrying he had two girlfriends, and the two tried to commit suicide.

-His song Claire de Lune appears in two movies: The mechanical orange and twilight.

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-Debussy's grave at Cimetiere de Passy.