Claude Debussy was slow to develop as a composer for the piano, despite the fact that it was his instrument of choice. But the piano works he did write are extraordinarily important. In their ...

Flex your piano fingers with these 7 easiest Debussy preludes and piano pieces. Claude Debussy is one of the greatest pianists of all time and one of the most prominent composers connected with ...

Debussy’s Preludes for piano – two books of 12 each – are so complete in themselves that you wonder what can be gained from creating orchestral versions. Matthews wisely resists literal transcriptions ...

On Sunday, French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet returned to Orchestra Hall with an invitation to wade in a single great work: Claude Debussy’s Préludes. Considering the Préludes a “work” is a ...

The more suggestive the music, the more diverse the ways it can be understood. Debussy disliked the term “Impressionism”, but the wash of sounds that creates a series of 24 images in his Préludes is ...

Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...

In the western suburbs of Paris 150 years ago today, a boy was born to an unassuming couple, proprietors of a china shop who had no great taste for music. But that little boy felt otherwise, and grew ...

While reading pianist Alexei Lubimov's liner notes to his new ECM release, Debussy: Preludes, I was reminded of a recent documentary titled Pianomania. In the film, viewers are treated to a behind-the ...

With the sesquicentennial of Claude Debussy's birth coming up fast on Aug. 22, you'd think there would be a small blizzard of new Debussy releases. This year, not so much; maybe it's a sign of the ...

La fille aux cheveux de lin or The Girl With the Flaxen Hair is the eighteenth piece from Debussy’s First Book of Preludes and has a two and a half minutes play time. The piece also happens to be one ...

Debussy's preludes are given the orchestral treatment with this luscious new album from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra When one thinks of Debussy, one thinks of vast, visionary ideas condensed ...