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Debussy

[ deb-yoo-see, dey-byoo-, duh-byoo-see; French duh-by-see ]

noun

  1. Claude A·chille [klawd , uh, -, sheel, klohd , a, -, sheel], 1862–1918, French composer.


Debussy

/ dəbysi; ˈdeɪbjuːsɪ; dəˈbjuːsɪ /

noun

  1. Debussy(Achille) Claude18621918MFrenchMUSIC: composerWRITING: critic ( Achille ) Claude (klod). 1862–1918, French composer and critic, the creator of impressionism in music and a profound influence on contemporary composition. His works include Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894) and La Mer (1905) for orchestra, the opera Pelléas et Mélisande (1902), and many piano pieces and song settings


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Other Words From

  • De·bus·sy·an [dih-, byoo, -see-, uh, n], adjective

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Example Sentences

Debussy is a man of unhampered and clairvoyant imagination, a dreamer with a far-wandering vision.

I am quite aware that such praise of Debussy's lyric-drama as is spoken here will seem to many preposterous, or at best excessive.

From this she suddenly turned to Debussy—she played a most difficult thing of his—I can't remember its name—then she stopped.

Inez interrupted one of these communions, when Helen supposed herself alone with Debussy.

The Debussy opera, wonderful as it is, does not begin to make the vocal demands that such a work as Trovatore does.

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