Debussy’s masterpiece provoked a revolution in music, but one brought about by subtlety and intimacy, dwelling on the sheer beauty of musical timbre. In 1894, Claude Debussy’s quietly revolutionary ...

Claude Debussy’s singular visit to Spain lasted only an hour or two, long enough to attend a bullfight. Even so, his contemporary Manuel de Falla declared Debussy’s Iberia to be more genuine than ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

The most significant musical anniversaries of 2018 are all centenaries – of the births of Leonard Bernstein and Bernd Alois Zimmermann, and of the death of Claude Debussy, and it’s the last of those, ...

There are plenty of classical music boffins who put Claude Debussy right up there – not above Bach, but in the mix with Beethoven and Mozart. He’s certainly France’s most significant composer – the ...

The Takács Quartet is best known for its gritty but stylish approach to the music of German and Eastern European composers — Bartók, Beethoven, Haydn, and so forth. So there’s a certain frisson in ...

On last Sunday's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Classical Music, Catherine Bott asks 'What is impressionism in music?' Here's the remarkable story of the neglected, and possibly first, ...

Listen to the first three string quartets on this two-disc set blind, and you'll be convinced that you're in the presence of genius. These are superbly wrought, highly individual pieces, their energy ...

The Romantic composer has been brought realistically to life through digital sculpting technology. An artist has created a stunning, realistic 3D portrait of classical music’s Claude Debussy. And now, ...