How to pronounce “debussy” in English

Debussy then went one step further.

Debussy could not stand the term Impressionism.

All Debussy had were tools.

Did Debussy suddenly close his eyes and say, what does this sound like to me?

Now Debussy did not have that.

But Debussy somehow understood that each one of them contributed something.

So Debussy-- he is looking for a way to communicate that's new.

But Debussy-- when did he actually change the world of music?

And Debussy said, it's not because I can't.

And Debussy had his share of both of those sides.

that Debussy wrote.

I think about Debussy and I really can't understand where he came up with these ideas that essentially didn't exist before he came up with them.

The interesting thing about Debussy, he was very, very crotchety.

If you think about Debussy's great influence, there were two of them.

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I think what Debussy understood perfectly was sound is created by the sound itself and by the overtones and the aura around it.

And so Debussy, now having Emma Bardac in his life, she was Jewish and Wagner had no patience for that.

The interesting thing about Debussy and Wagner is, at the end, Debussy said of him, well, Wagner is basically a sunset that people

You have by Debussy.

I think Debussy viewed himself as an inventor.

Listening to Debussy, he is as avant garde as they go.

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It's composer Claude Debussy said that art was the greatest deception of all.

You're the Debussys of today.

So we go back to Debussy and we have him living in Paris in the late 1800s and the early 1900s.

and when Rimsky-Korsakov looked at Debussy's music, he said, Debussy has absolutely no talent whatsoever.

Tchaikovsky was sent to one of Debussy's manuscripts, and Tchaikovsky looked at it and said, for an amateur, it's not bad.

So the interesting thing about Debussy, and this has been, since you bring it up, on my mind very much about what do we

You have many other pieces by Debussy that use this pentatonic scale, the scale of the East, that was brought to the West by whenever

And in the case of Debussy, will the next generation tell us that all that stuff that he originated is cultural appropriation and we can't listen to it anymore?

How much did being grouchy allow Debussy to actually be as creative as he was.

When are we going to hear a Debussy come up with something--

You have people like Ravel and Debussy, who are scholars in music.

and he plays piano-- Ravel and Debussy and all.

And color and timbre was so important to Debussy, and to try and explain it, it was a lifetime of trying to understand how sound actually

But it really didn't mean anything to Debussy and I don't think it meant anything to a lot of his compatriots.

So on Debussy in particular, did he view himself as a part of the avant garde or was he just a composer

And he also managed to throw in my favorite Debussy piano piece.

What you guys are doing, and what Debussy did, is really create something out of nothing.

So how do these guys, in particular Debussy, look at the world and say, I don't want to paint what I see in sound.

Now, this is an early piece of Debussy.

Now Wagner was a real, real problem for Debussy.

First of all, at the point where Debussy discusses Wagner-- his love of his life and his wife-- he was first his lady friend and then later his wife--

And so here you have Debussy in this cross-hairs with Wagner.

To create new and more-- you can't look at a guy like Debussy, who changed the entire world of music and how color is sound, and say, he'd come to Google

What is confusing and complicated for me is taking a piece by Debussy that was intended for particular instruments, digitizing them as if that's the real thing.

So if you think about Debussy, two things stand out to me.

Mendelssohn, for instance, Debussy said, oh, he's nothing more than a proper accountant.

And so of course then you have "The Rite of Spring," and all of a sudden Debussy gets pushed to the side with Stravinsky who thought Debussy was OK but not