The famous French composer Claude Debussy from an early age set out to become a famous musician, and he managed to achieve his goal. This man was a real embodiment of music – he not only composed it, but also was a talented conductor. Feeling the sounds subtly, he became famous as a music critic, becoming a well-known person during his lifetime.
The future great composer graduated from music school, receiving two diplomas with honors. After completing his studies, Claude Debussy went to travel around Russia, where he fell in love with the music of local Gypsies. At the age of 17, Debussy was a music teacher for Nadezhda von Meck, the future patroness of Tchaikovsky. Debussy’s large-scale works, for example, The Fall of the Escher House, often remained unfinished, as the composer lost interest in them.
He never in his life was on the productions of his own operas. Debussy’s favorite composer was Richard Wagner. In the life of Claude Debussy, there were many mistresses, two of whom committed suicide after the composer broke off relations with them. Throughout his life, the composer was very poor. Even on the day of his own wedding, he gave a music lesson in the morning in order to organize a refreshment for guests with the money he received.
Contemporaries argued that for no apparent reason, Debussy would sometimes leave the house in his slippers, without worrying about public opinion. Debussy’s creativity laid the foundations of a new musical genre – impressionism. Moreover, his first works, to which critics applied this term, were mercilessly crushed by them.
