Debussy

It is partly thanks to his acquaintances among writers and painters from the end of the XIXth century that Debussy's idiom evolved. In a context of heated international politics, the return to French classicism allows some artists to reaffirm the values of the age of Louis XIV. Indeed, his so prodigiously creative music, which today is played with too much caution, makes no claim of being avant-garde. In the musician's eyes, it simply expresses the pleasure to play and to discover new sounds.