Claude Debussy
1862–1918 · composer · France
Arts and ideas22 years old in 1884
Achille Claude Debussy was a French composer, born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1862
- 18708 years old
- 187412 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibition
- 187513 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
- 188624 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvre
- 189836 years oldZola publishes “J'accuse…!”
- 191856 years oldDies
