MUS 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Claude Debussy, Second Viennese School, The Rite Of Spring

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Evolution of musical style is a constant (cid:862)(cid:455)i(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:455)a(cid:374)g(cid:863) dri(cid:448)e(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:272)ha(cid:374)gi(cid:374)g pu(cid:271)li(cid:272) tastes. Romantic music reached its apotheosis during the late nineteenth century in the grand works of wagner, tchaikovsky, brahms and mahler. German- dominated musical empire had started to weaken. Impressionism- a late-nineteenth-century movement that arose in france; the. Impressionists were the first to reject photographic realism in painting, instead trying to re-create the impression that an object produces upon the senses in a single, fleeting moment. French impression granted controversy in the beginning, is now the most beloved of all artistic styles. Impressionists saw the world as awash in vibrant rays of light and sought to capture the aura that sun-dappled objects created in the eyes of the beholder. Debussy was born in 1862 into a modest family living in a small town outside of paris. At age of ten debussy entered the paris conservatory for lessons in piano, composition and music theory.

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