Short facts:
Claude Debussy
France
22.08.1862
25.03.1918
- La Mer
- Suite bergamasque: "Clair de lune"
- Préludes
- Suite bergamasque
- Violin Sonata G minor
- Six épigraphes antiques
- Estampes
- Cello Sonata D minor
- Images (Piano)
- Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
- The Joyful Island
- Nocturnes
- Images pour orchestre
- Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Piano
- String Quartet G minor op. 10
- Children’s Corner
- Nuit d'Étoiles
- Première Rhapsodie for Clarinet and Orchestra
- Hommage à Haydn
- Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orléans
- Danse sacrée et danse profane
- Trois Ballades de Villon
- Cinq Poèmes de Baudelaire
- La Damoiselle élue
- Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (version for two pianos)
- Syrinx
- Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
- Valse romantique F minor
- 12 Études
- Trois Chansons de France
- Three ballades of François Villon
- Rhapsody for Orchestra and Saxophone, "Rhapsodie Mauresque"
- Trois Ballades de François Villon
- The Prodigal Son
- Invocation
- Printemps
- Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra
- Khamma
- La Boite à joujoux
- Chansons de Bilitis
- Berceuse héroïque, Ode à la France
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Popular composers
- Antonín Dvořák
- Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frédéric Chopin
- Iannis Xenakis
- Igor Strawinsky
- Jean Sibelius
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johannes Brahms
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Pjotr Tschaikowsky
- Richard Strauss
- Robert Schumann
- Sergei Prokofjew
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular compositions
- Adès
- Bach: French Suites BWV 812-817
- Bach: St Matthew Passion BWV 244
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 C minor op. 67
- Britten: Billy Budd
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto F major
- Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 1
- Hamelin: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
- Korngold: The Miracle of Heliane, op. 20
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 E-flat Major
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 C major K. 551, "Jupiter"
- Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
- Puccini
- Purcell
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Schumann: Cello Concerto A minor op. 129
- Strawinsky
- Tschaikowsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme op.33
- Vivaldi
Popular conductors
- Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- Antonio Pappano
- Claudio Abbado
- Daniel Barenboim
- Dima Slobodeniouk
- François-Xavier Roth
- Hannu Lintu
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mariss Jansons
- Matthias Pintscher
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Paavo Järvi
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Pierre Boulez
- Riccardo Chailly
- Simon Rattle
- Ton Koopman
- Valery Gergiev
Popular soloists
- András Schiff
- Bernarda Fink
- Boris Giltburg
- Christa Ludwig
- Damien Guillon
- Daniel Barenboim
- Fazıl Say
- Gidon Kremer
- Isabelle Faust
- Janine Jansen
- Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Jewgeni Kissin
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Martha Argerich
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Renaud Capuçon
- Sol Gabetta
- Yuja Wang
Popular orchestras
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Ensemble intercontemporain
- France Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- French National Orchestra
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Orchestre de Paris
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Wiener Philharmoniker