Claude Debussy

1 “Even though he grew up in France being a painter was more accepted than being a composer. His father thought that he would become a sailor. He had all the tools for a painter but he was said to have, having a musical ear, but of Debussy it could be said that he had the finest ‘musical eye’ of any composer” (Brown 16). Claude Debussy is one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, …

…it all he had into every piece he composed. Claude truly took to heart what he loved to do, making his music appreciated by many. If it wasn’t for people like Claude then surly our society would lack the music intuition which he so readily exerted. “The composer’s character was from the outset a mercurial mixture of the definite and the undecided: set in certain ways yet open-minded - heroic but vulnerable” (Brown 16).