There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

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Claude Debussy was a 19th-century French classical composer. Achille Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony

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