Life and Musical works

of Claude Debussy and

Maurice Ravel
“Music is the silence between the notes”

— Claude Debussy
“The only love affair I have ever had was
with music.”

— Maurice Ravel
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Claude
Debussy
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Claude Debussy Birthdate Works

His major works include Clair de
A french Composer whose Claude debussy was born lune (“Moonlight,” in Suite
works were a seminal on august 22, 1862 in bergamasque, 1890–1905), Prélude
à l’après-midi d’un
force in the music of 20th Saint-Germain-en- faune (1894; Prelude to the
century. Laye,France~ died March Afternoon of a Faun), the
opera Pelléas et Mélisande (1902),
25, 1918. and La Mer (1905; “The Sea”).
 Achille-
Claude
Debussy
He was among the most influential
composers of the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. Born to a family of modest
means and little cultural involvement,
Debussy showed enough musical talent to
be admitted at the age of ten to France's
leading music college, the 
Conservatoire de Paris.
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Claude’s Life

Debussy's pregnant mother took him and his sister Adèle
to their paternal aunt's home in Cannes, where they
remained until the following year.
During his stay in Cannes, the seven-year-old Debussy
had his first piano lessons; his aunt paid for him to
study with an Italian musician, Jean Cerutti.
Manuel Debussy remained in Paris and joined
the forces of the Commune; after its defeat by
French government troops in 1871 he was
sentenced to four years' imprisonment,
although he only served one year.
Debussy's talents soon became evident, and in
1872, aged ten, he was admitted to the 
Conservatoire de Paris, where he remained a
student for the next eleven years. 
At the Conservatoire, Debussy initially made
good progress. Marmontel said of him "A
charming child, a truly artistic temperament;
much can be expected of him".
Émile Durand wrote in a report "Debussy would be
an excellent pupil if he were less sketchy and less
cavalier." A year later he described Debussy as
"desperately careless".
He was a fine pianist and an outstanding 
sight reader, who could have had a professional
career had he wished,[20] but he was only
intermittently diligent in his studies.
He composed his Piano Trio in G major for von
Meck's ensemble, and made a transcription for piano
duet of three dances from Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.
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Famous works
of Debussy
 His Famous Works

Lamer, Chair De Lune, Syrinx,

Rêverie, Pelléas et La fille aux cheveux de Suite bergamasque,
Mélisande lin, Two Arabesques Nocturnes

Children’s Corner,
Estampes,
Prelude to the Afternoon Petite Suite, Cello
of a Faun, String Sonata
Quartet
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03 Maurice Ravel
 Joseph Maurice Ravel
(born March 7, 1875, Ciboure, France—died December 28, 1937, Paris)
was a French composer, A slow and painstaking worker,
pianist and conductor. He is Ravel composed fewer pieces
often associated with  than many of his contemporaries.
impressionism along with Among his works to enter the
his elder contemporary  repertoire are pieces for piano,
Claude Debussy, although chamber music, two piano
concertos, ballet music, two
both composers rejected
operas and eight song cycles; he
the term. wrote no symphonies or church
music
Born to a music-loving
family, Ravel attended
Ravel was among the first
France's premier music composers to recognise the
college, the  potential of recording to bring
Paris Conservatoire; he their music to a wider public.
was not well regarded From the 1920s, despite
by its conservative limited technique as a pianist
establishment, whose or conductor, he took part in
biased treatment of him recordings of several of his
caused a scandal. works; others were made
under his supervision..
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As a result, the director of the Conservatoire, 

Ravel was born in a village near Saint-Jean-de-Luz,  Théodore Dubois, was forced to resign, and his
France, of a Swiss father and a Basque mother.  place was taken by the composer Gabriel
Fauré, with whom Ravel had studied
His family background was an artistic and cultivated composition.
 one, and the young Maurice received every In 1928 Ravel embarked on a four months’ tour of
encouragement from his father when his talent for  Canada and the United States and in the same year
music became apparent at an early age. visited England to receive an honorary degree of
doctor of music from Oxford. 
During this period he composed some of his best
known works, including the Pavane for a Dead Ravel’s life was in the main uneventful. He never
Princess, the Sonatine for piano, and the String married, and, though he enjoyed the society of a
Quartet. few chosen friends, he lived the life of a
He is one of the rare composers whose early works semirecluse at his country retreat at Montfort-
seem scarcely less mature than those of his L’Amaury, in the forest of Rambouillet, near Paris.
maturity. Ravel was in no sense a revolutionary musician.
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Famous works
of Ravel
 His Famous Works

Piano Concerto in
Boléro, Jeux d'eau,
G,une infante
Pavane pour Gaspard de la nuit,
Sonatine,Tzigane défunte, Daphnis et Le Tombeau de
Chloé Couperin

Miroirs,
La valse,
Ma mère l'Oye, Rapsodie Gaspard de la nuit,
espagnole Rapsodie espagnole
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