Claude Debussy
1862–1918 · composer · France
Arts and ideas36 years old in 1898
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, 1890s
- Who governs
- The Republic lives through scandal after scandal: Panama in 1892, then the Dreyfus affair.
- Everyday life
- Electric light, the bicycle craze and, from 1898, the digging of the first metro line change city life.
- Arts and ideas
- Montmartre cabarets, Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, and in 1895 the Lumière brothers' first film screenings.
- Meanwhile
- Britain is at the height of Queen Victoria's empire, and Japan has just defeated China in 1895.
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
