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Music Without a Destination | by Matthew Aucoin | The New York Review of Books Classical Music Composers, Claude Debussy, Classical Composers, Classical Musicians, Amadeus Mozart, Classic Music, Music Images, Music Composers, Great Music

No matter the form his music takes—from sparkling, quicksilver piano pieces to grand orchestral essays—there is across Debussy’s entire oeuvre an extraordinary unity of texture. Its essential quality is a spacious beauty, a lushness without thickness, which his biographer Stephen Walsh intelligently ascribes in part to Debussy’s preference for whole tones. Music whose basic interval is the whole tone—an interval of two half-steps, that is, two piano keys—is inherently spacious; there is more…

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Clair de lune, the third segment in Suite bergamasque, a four-movement composition for piano by French composer Claude Debussy, begun in 1890 and revised and published in 1905. The gentle Clair de lune provides an elegant contrast to the suite’s sprightly second and fourth movements.

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