Debussy

Je ne révolutionne rien, je ne démolis rien. Je vais tranquillement mon chemin, sans faire la moindre propagande pour mes idées, ce qui est le propre des révolutionnaires.

I revolutionize nothing, I demolish nothing.

I quietly go my way, without making any propaganda for my ideas, which is the nature of revolutionaries.

Debussy said this in 1910.

He is one of the composers who used modes in his compositions.

He also inherited traditions and techniques from Johann Sebastian Bach’s writing.

Frédéric Chopin carried Bach’s music into France,and Debussy absorbed it all and allowed it to flourish in his own art.

Robert Casadesus was Maurice Ravel’s favourite pianist.His Ravel is amazing, and so is his Debussy.

Debussy: Preludes, Books I and II

Robert Casadesus, piano

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