Composer Claude Debussy was not a natural at the piano. At first, he struggled to learn to love the instrument. But as he continued to write piano music, Debussy started trying new things ...

Claude Debussy, the great French composer who died 100 years ago in Paris, is that rare thing, a great innovator whom the whole world loves. His well-known piano pieces such as Clair de Lune and ...

While staying at a French seaside resort in the spring of 1889, the young Claude Debussy was at a musical crossroads. Like so many of his contemporaries, the young iconoclast Debussy was an ...

Claude Debussy ... or any other concept imposed from outside." The work's a litany of broken harmonic rules; it's also a masterpiece. When heard on the radio these days, Debussy's music might ...