In 1889, Achille-Claude Debussy, then in his mid-20s, was one of 30 million people to walk through the iron arches of the newly completed Eiffel Tower. Throughout that year, the arches served as the ...

(Achille) Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the ...

Walsh (Stravinsky) uses the musical compositions of French composer Achille-Claude Debussy (1862–1918) as a framework to tell the story of his short life in this richly descriptive biography. Debussy ...

IT HAS been said — and is, I fear, something of an aphorism — that two careers may run in a parallel direction; then suddenly, without premonition or intent, may swerve to meet each other, though the ...

The famous French composer Claude Achille Debussy, who has for some time been known to be suffering from cancer, died in Paris yesterday at the age of 55. He was born at St. Germain-en-Laye August 22, ...