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Claude Debussy — Composer, 1862–1918
The son of a china merchant, he entered the Conservatoire at ten and broke with academic harmony and with the Wagnerian model. His contemporaries filed his music under the name of Impressionism, a term he rejected as Ravel did. He died nearly eight months before the armistice. (Editorial synthesis)
Claude Debussy was born on 22 August 1862. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Claude Debussy died on 25 March 1918. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Claude Debussy died in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Claude Debussy: the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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