Debussy
Transcript of Debussy
-By: David Barrientos, Óscar Lapuente and Víctor Luri.
-Who was Debussy.
-Family.
-Works.
-Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
-Curiosities.
-Questions.
-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.
Manuel- Achille Debussy Victorine Manoury Debussy
-Claude
-Adele Clementine
-Emmanuel
-Alfred.
-Eugene Octave
-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.
-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.
-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.
-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.
-Debussy's grave at Cimetiere de Passy.