Claude Debussy
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1862–1918. If a composer ever were a mirror of his time, that would be Debussy. Painting was his passion and he had many painter friends; he knew how to play with the colours of his instruments like a painter with the colours of his palette. He loved poetry and wrote melodies with texts written by great poets like Baudelaire and Mallarmé. As a child, he wanted to become a sailor and didn’t like school at all. Moreover he has always been an insolent student, even at the Conservatory. In love with Bach, Couperin and Schumann at six years old, he became the child prodigy of the Conservatoire de Paris where he would compose at twelve years old – not by following rules but, as he said himself, “according to his pleasure.” He would never break this rule. Text read by Jean-Claude Donda. Copublished with Erato Disques.
