Presidio Chapel Sunday Concerts presents Junko Kasahara in French Impressionism - music for piano by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, at the historic Presidio Chapel ...

The string quartets by Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel not only rank among the most recorded string quartets, they are most often found together on the same recording. Debussy composed his quartet in ...

Impressionism in art is fairly easy to describe: thin brush strokes, obscured edges, the play of light. Impressionism in music is harder to articulate. Composer Claude Debussy translated visual ...

Claude Monet influenced more than just other painters. Composers began to incorporate impressionism into their music.The romantic era of Brahms went out the door. And in came French composer Claude ...

You may have heard of French impressionism in music, from composers such as Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) and Claude Debussy (1862-1918). Well, there's such a thing as English impressionism, too. John ...

This month, many classical music lovers noted Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday. On Monday, March 31, Quatuor Debussy pairs Ravel’s music with the composer whose name it carries in celebration of both ...

The most exquisite of all French composers; Maurice Ravel was a sensualist-perfectionist without parallel. Why is it that Ravel’s pieces often sound so different from one another? Ravel was one of the ...