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 ...

While staying at a French seaside resort in the spring of 1889, the young Claude Debussy was at a musical crossroads. Like so many of his contemporaries, the young iconoclast Debussy was an acolyte of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The real marvel of classical music is that it's such a nebulous term. Classical is generally used for anything that's ...

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, ...

The Handel Scandal and Dangerous Debussy will both launch on the Sky channel and streamer Now this fall, free to households ...

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 ...

While trying to finish a term paper in the late 60s, I listened to a certain passage of The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian hundreds of times. It’s just part, I suppose, of my obsession with music. Debussy ...

When Víkingur Ólafsson was about 5 years old, he already knew what he wanted to be. "It sounds crazy, but I always saw myself as a concert pianist," he says. "Even if I wasn't a good pianist." Over ...

In this anniversary year, forget the concept of Debussy the musical impressionist. I want to celebrate Debussy the sonic explorer. Anniversaries. God love 'em. Yes, classical music's institutions are ...

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, ...