Клод Дебюсси цитаты
Клод Дебюсси
Дата рождения: 22. Август 1862
Дата смерти: 25. Март 1918
Другие имена:Claude A. Debussy, Claude Achille Debussy
Ашиль Клод Дебюсси́ — французский композитор. Ведущий представитель музыкального импрессионизма.
Подобные авторы
Леонид Леонидович Сабанеев16
русский музыковед, композитор, музыкальный писатель и критик
Илья Кормильцев54
русский поэт, переводчик, издатель
Пётр Ильич Чайковский21
русский композитор, дирижёр, педагог, музыкально-обществе...
Роберт Шуман52
немецкий композитор, дирижёр, музыкальный критик, педагог
Вольфганг Амадей Моцарт22
австрийский композитор, скрипач, пианист, органист-виртуоз
Морис Равель26
французский композитор-импрессионист, дирижёр, один из ре...
Иоганн Себастьян Бах4
немецкий композитор
Йозеф Гайдн15
композитор, венский классик
Сергей Сергеевич Прокофьев5
российский и советский композитор, дирижёр и пианист
Анатоль Франс74
французский писатель и литературный критикЦитаты Клод Дебюсси
„Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.“
— Claude Debussy
As quoted in Companion to Contemporary Musical Thought (1992) by John Paynter, p. 590
Unsourced variant: Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art.
„It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you.“
— Claude Debussy
Context: It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.
As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Debussy (2003) by Simon Trezise, p. 120
„Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found.“
— Claude Debussy
Context: Music should humbly seek to please; within these limits great beauty may perhaps be found. Extreme complication is contrary to art. Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Quoted in French Music : From the Death of Berlioz to the Death of Fauré (1951) by Martin Cooper, p. 136, and in Debussy and Wagner (1979) by Robin Holloway, p. 207
„Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down.“
— Claude Debussy
Context: Collect impressions. Don’t be in a hurry to write them down. Because that’s something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture — a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is.
Debussy in a letter to his pupil Raoul Bardac (1906)
„Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset.“
— Claude Debussy
Context: Music is a mysterious mathematical process whose elements are part of Infinity. … There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little — the book of Nature.
As quoted in The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music (1996) by Don Michael Randel
„When I gaze at a sunset sky and spend hours contemplating its marvelous ever-changing beauty, an extraordinary emotion overwhelms me. Nature in all its vastness is truthfully reflected in my sincere though feeble soul.“
— Claude Debussy
Context: I do not practise religion in accordance with the sacred rites. I have made mysterious Nature my religion. I do not believe that a man is any nearer to God for being clad in priestly garments, nor that one place in a town is better adapted to meditation than another. When I gaze at a sunset sky and spend hours contemplating its marvelous ever-changing beauty, an extraordinary emotion overwhelms me. Nature in all its vastness is truthfully reflected in my sincere though feeble soul. Around me are the trees stretching up their branches to the skies, the perfumed flowers gladdening the meadow, the gentle grass-carpetted earth, … and my hands unconsciously assume an attitude of adoration. … To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.
As quoted in Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (1933) by Léon Vallas, p. 225
Variant translation: Before the passing sky, in long hours of contemplation of its magnificent and ever-changing beauty, I am seized by an incomparable emotion. The whole expanse of nature is reflected in my own sincere and feeble soul. Around me the branches of trees reach out toward the firmament, here are sweet-scented flowers smiling in the meadow, here the soft earth is carpeted with sweet herbs. … Nature invites its ephemeral and trembling travelers to experience these wonderful and disturbing spectacles — that is what I call prayer.
As quoted in The Life of the Creative Spirit (2001) by H. Charles Romesburg, p. 240
„Composers aren't daring enough.“
— Claude Debussy
Context: Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called "common sense", which is the most dreadful thing I know — after all, it's no more than a religion founded to excuse the ubiquity of imbeciles!
Debussy Letters (1987) edited by Francois Lesure and Roger Nichols
