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This piece is written for orchestra. I wrote this depicting the ocean through unusual orchestration and impressive harmonies. There are three movements: 1. "De l'aube à midi sur la mer" (from dawn to midday on the sea), 2. "Jeux de vagues" (Play of the Waves), 3. "Dialogue du vent et de la mer" (Dialogue of the wind and the sea).

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This song is probably my most famous. It is actually the third movement of Suite Bergamasque. I originally called this piece Promenade Sentimentale. Clair De Lune means moonlight.

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This piano solo by yours truly creates a sort of dream like feel through it's light, easy to the ear, melodies.

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Money was very important to me due to the monetary condition I grew up in. Throughout my life, I was drawn to the luxuries, which meant I was constantly broke. One time, when I was out of coal, I offered to write the coal merchant an original composition for coal. He accepted and the piece was titled, "Evenings Lighted By Burning Coals."

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One of my best friends was Erik Satie, and both of us extremely enjoyed Parisian Café Society. We loved the company of our bohemian friends.

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Many people, throwing me in with the artistic movement of the time, called me an impressionist. However, to me, it was important that I was called, rather, a modernist. My response to being called an impressionist was as such,  ‘I am trying to do something different….what imbeciles call Impressionism, a term which is as poorly used as possible – particularly by critics’.

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Oddly, I was surrounded by suicide throughout my life. Often contemplating it myself, one of those in which I had an affair with, Gaby Dupont, constantly threatened to commit suicide. And, when my wife found out about the affairs, she tried to kill herself by shooting herself in the stomach, but she survived. She spent 22 years with a bullet in her spine.

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Although I married two separate times, during both times I had many, many affairs. So many, in fact, that I could list them off and they'd take a while. My first affair I got myself into was when I was eighteen. Sample names of people I had affairs with include Marie-Blanche Vasnier and Gabrielle (Gaby) Dupont. (Marie Vasnier is below, a soprano for which sang for Debussy's opera)

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In 1884, at the age of twenty-two, I entered into a composition contest called the Prix de Rome with my piece, L'Enfant Prodigue (The Prodigal Child). With this piece, I won the top prize, which allowed me to study for three years in the Italian Capital.

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I spent some time in Rome, and during this time I studied a German composer by the name of Richard Wagner. The most captivating pieces I found was his opera, Tristan und Isolde.  Although he left a lasting impression on me, I tried not to use any of his melodic ideas in my music.

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During my time at the Paris World Exposition, I heard the Javanese Gamelan. This is an ensemble of different percussion instruments including bells, gongs, xylophones, and metallophones. Sometimes, this music would be accompanied by vocals as well. When first hearing this music, I said it was "counterpoint by comparison with which Palestrina is child’s play." In the years after this I tried to incorporate pieces of this ensemble into my music.

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I died March 25, 1918 from Colon Cancer at the age of 55 in Paris. While having my cancer, I had surgery to try to help mitigate it, but it did nothing. And, when I died, I was first buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery, because of heavy German bombardment, but eventually I was buried where I wanted to be, in Passy Cemetery.

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I married twice, first to Rosaline Texier and then to Emma Bardac. I had one child, Claude-Emma Debussy, nicknamed Chouchou. Sadly, my beautiful girl died a year after me from Diphtheria. (Her picture is below)

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My mother's name was Victorine Manoury and my father's, Manuel-Achille. I had three brothers, Alfred, Emmanuel, and Eugene-Octave, as well as one sister, Adele.

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Although I lived in a poor family, my piano playing skills landed me schooling at the Paris Conservatory. My fellow students and teachers thought I was definitely talented, but also strange. (picture below is the Paris Conservatory)

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I was born August 22, 1862 to very poor family in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.