Debussy: 20 facts about the great composer

• 1. Debussy is born in France
• 2. Debussy's piano music
• 3. Paris Conservatoire
• 4. Debussy and Tchaikovsky
• 5. Debussy wins the Prix de Rome
• 6. Suite bergamasque
• 7. 'Clair de lune', from Suite bergamasque
• 8. Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
• 9. Debussy's Parisian critics
• 10. Nocturnes
• 11. Debussy's only opera: Pelléas et Mélisande
• 12. Debussy and wife Emma Bardac
• 13. La mer
• 14. Debussy the impressionist?
• 15. Children's Corner
• 16. Preludes
• 17. La fille aux cheveux de lin (The girl with the flaxen hair)
• 18. Etudes
• 19. Debussy's unfinished works
• 20. Passy Cemetery Paris

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