The pianist on this album, François-Joel Thiollier, is Franco-American and gave his first concert in New York at the age of five.
Performer Biography
François-Joel Thiollier has won eight Grands Prix in international competitions, including the Brussels Queen Elisabeth and Moscow Tchaikovsky Competitions.
Composer Biography
Claude Debussy, the composer, began piano lessons at age seven and later studied with Verlaine's mother-in-law, who claimed to have been a pupil of Chopin.
Composition History
The Prélude from Debussy's Suite Pour le piano was dedicated to his former pupil Worms de Romilly, for whom Debussy had to give a lesson on his wedding day to pay for the wedding breakfast.
Composition History
The Suite bergamasque, which includes the famous 'Clair de lune,' contains pieces written between 1890 and its publication date in 1905.
Composer Biography
Debussy won the prestigious Prix de Rome in 1884, which required him to reside at the Villa Medici in Rome, where he met Liszt.
Composer Biography
At eighteen, Debussy was employed by Nadezhda von Meck, Tchaikovsky's patroness, as a tutor to her children and house-musician.
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