Description:
Although we tend to lump them together as “Impressionists,” the music of French composers Claude Debussy (1862-1918) and Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) goes well beyond the borders of that narrow category. In developing new sonorities and textures, and challenging old perceptions of melody, harmony and rhythm, Debussy and Ravel created new, more subtle worlds of music that suggest rather than state, revealing the moods and emotions aroused by a subject, instead of a detailed picture.
