What Makes Debussy Sound French?

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0:00 - Introduction
0:48 - The Way Things Were...
2:53 - The Germanic Rulebook
5:55 - Impressionist Painting
6:47 - Franco-Prussian War
7:18 - The Influence of Eric Satie
9:24 - Debussy
10:18 - Préludes
11:14 - Des pas sur la neige
12:34 - Voiles
13:32 - La cathédrale engloutie
14:41 - Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
16:05 - What Makes Debussy Sound French?
Music used:
Debussy - Reflets dans l'eau
Bach - Prelude in C major
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
Delibes - Flower Duet
Satie - Sarabande
Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1
Debussy - Reverie
Debussy - Girl with the Flaxen Hair
Debussy - Footsteps in the Snow
Debussy - Voiles
Debussy - The Submerged Cathedral
Debussy - Prelude for the Afternoon of a Faun

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@alinalinalina6825 3 года назад

And yet Debussy rejected the idea that he was impressionistic. He didn't want to be called impressionist

@stjacquesremi 3 года назад

As much as Philip glass who writes minimalist music doesn't want to be called a minimalist, and here we are

@InsidetheScore 3 года назад

Impressionist used to be a term of derision by the French academies

@Michail_Chatziasemidis 3 года назад

Indeed, my music history teacher last year assigned me to write an paper about Debussy's connection to Symbolism, and how and why he wasn't an Impressionist.

@mattchu. 3 года назад

I'm petty sure Picasso didn't want to be called an impressionist (or maybe he said this about cubism, I can't remember. You get the point though). Artists make the art. I don't think they really get to decide how they should be classified though

@Michail_Chatziasemidis 3 года назад

@@mattchu. Then that raises questions whether artists know themselves and their works. And again, doubts are raised whether critics know deeply what each characterism means. At least in my research I've found that Debussy was characterised as an Impressionist in his time, simply because "Impressionist" was the trendy term conservatives would apply to the progressive ones. (cf. also: doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07353 )

@JamesZ32100 3 года назад

It's amazing how Satie played what we now know as Jazz chords back in the 19th century.

@antoinemozart243 3 года назад

Jazz is one of the greatest invention in modern music.

@sugarfree1894 3 года назад

Beethoven liked a bit of boogy-woogie too.

@DonnyKirkMusic 2 года назад

I think that music kept evolving and thus the feelings we all get when listening evolved as well. You can kinda feel the wind of change and progression in the artform when you hear something that sounds so modern but was made years and years ago.

@bobajob13 2 года назад

Ravel used the Coltrane changes long before Coltrane was even born. Bach used harmony that wouldn’t bee seen again until Noel Rawsthorne. There’s always things hiding in classical music that you don’t expect to find there.

@BenjaminGessel 2 года назад

Yeah, but I don't really define extended harmony/chords as "jazz harmony" or "jazz chords". I know why they are often considered this way, but the definition of what jazz IS has everything to do with the COMBINATION of rhythmic syncopation/sometimes/often swung rhythms, improvisation sections, instrumentation, form and textures more unique to jazz music, and THEN the whole extended and/or (dep. on the piece) bluesy harmony kind of deal. And jazz isn't really supposed to be as "formal" as classical music. So its kind of like Venn diagrams, or bubbles. The bubble of extended tertial harmony overlaps with the bubble of jazz, but they are not quite the same thing...

@songsbymichaelroberts9078 3 года назад

You make some wonderful points. There is, however, a distinctly French aesthetic that predates both Satie and Debussy. It's in the spoken language, in the art (Boucher, Watteau)...in almost everything throughout France's history. You allude to the French emphasis on charm, and that's very important. There is also, in my view, a strong respect for humor in French music (Satie, Milhaud, Poulenc, Saint Saens). And, perhaps more than any of this, there is a certain detachment in French arts (visual, musical, literary, etc.). Even when Debussy's works are marked "sad" in the music (triste), it doesn't sound like Debussy's sadness. Instead, it sounds like the idea of sadness--as if sadness exists without someone to feel it. That detachment (when the work isn't about self expression, but wise observation) is--for me--the quality that allows all the other typically French qualities to live so vibrantly. Thank you for making a video about a subject I've thought abut my entire adult life.

@maxalaintwo3578 3 года назад

Separating the feeling from the feeler seems to be a common them going forward in classical music from then on

@sieni221 3 года назад

But the ppl of Saties time hated his music so maybe not so french. I think most french sound is accordion musette.

@tweshasaini7957 3 года назад

Wow thank you for putting what I felt in words

@tweshasaini7957 3 года назад

@@maxalaintwo3578 I think with modern pop and even contemporary classical music is about expression and experiences

@aFoxyFox. 3 года назад

Thank you for making this comment, these were some fantastic observations that I agree with and there is a lot of evidence to back up what you are saying and where that may have emerged from. Feel free to keep in touch at theartismagistra@gmail.com as I'd like to access your commentary and ideas more regularly, and please let me know if you have written about these sorts of things more extensively anywhere, if not, feel free to write freely to me on any of these topics you may have thought about as you may feel like it, and to read these ideas would be an honor really and a great gift.

@Camiloquai1 3 года назад

The first time I heard Debussy's music, I was 7 years old. A friend of mine gave me a cassette telling me "it is electronic Bach". I went home and my soul was absolutely trapped and mesmerized. When my mother -a social anthropologist - came home, I ran to her to showed my new musical discovery; she listened to the tape for a few seconds and told me: "that's not Bach... that's Debussy". it happened to be "Snowflakes are Dancing" a record made by the japanese genius, Isao Tomita, with electronic versions of some of Debussy's more popular compositions... since that day, I don't think I have let one week pass by without listening to Debussy: orchestral arrangements, solo piano versions... all of the available versions. I later became a musician myself (for 31 years now... uf!), and understood the revolutionary harmonic treatments of the French impressionists... I still say it is and will be my very favorite of them all.

@sugarfree1894 3 года назад

Not sure why, but I wonder if you have heard the Jacques Lussier versions of Bach. Perhaps you'd enjoy them

@autsni 10 дней назад

Tomita was the goat man god bless him 🙏

@lalitstalb8656 3 года назад

When Debussy took conservatory exams the big criticism against him was "he doesn't even sound French". That seems ridiculous now.

@stravinskyfan 3 года назад

But it's true, he doesn't sound French at all. Debussy sounds like Debussy, that's it.

@IsomerSoma 3 года назад

Or maybe the only thing ridiculous is to say that something sounds French.

@bobajob13 2 года назад

I don’t know if Debussy sounds as french as Louis Vierne or César Franck. Debussy sounds very much, like Debussy.

@wanderlngdays 3 года назад

Well, Bach was absolutely influenced by Italian style, as was usual in his time. In fact, before Bach, Italians and Frenchs dominated the European music scene

@chmendez 2 года назад

Yes, Corelli was in fact the one who made tonality popular. And he was the first one in having international success for instrumental music instead of vocal.

@jackjack3320 Год назад

Yeah, the hyperboles said in the beginning of this video are way overblown and over the top. It's this sort of idolatry around composers that I dislike about the classical music fandom in general. For instance, Weber and Spohr should be more credited than Beethoven for bringing about Romantic chromaticism. Beethoven even criticized them for being too daring. He told Schindler that "Weber's Euryanthe is an accumulation of diminished sevenths; all little backdoors!" "Spohr is too rich in dissonances, and pleasure in his music is marred by chromatic harmony." Heck, Beethoven is even less chromatic than Mozart. Brahms said that "Dissonance, true dissonance as Mozart used it, is not to be found in Beethoven. Look at Idomeneo. Not only is it a marvel, but as Mozart was still quite young and brash when he wrote it, it was a completely new thing."

@antoinemozart243 Год назад

@@jackjack3320 Dissonance in Mozarts music is only used for expression ! Mozart is the supreme genius able to use musical tools ( dissonances, fugue, religious themes) for only ONE PURPOSE : EXPRESSION. Debussy doesnt use dissonances, he just makes a NEW language with them ! HUGE DIFFERENCE !

@f.p.2010 Год назад

more so English style

@guilhermesuspiro9936 3 года назад

If Debussy sounds like a Monet painting, why does Rachmaninov or Prokofiev sound like Dostoyevsky Novels ?

@alidaoudi3269 3 года назад

Maybe because russian pieces are often in minor keys which makes them sound heavier and more dramatic

@ergnoor3551 3 года назад

As a Russian and a lover of late Russian classical music and literature I can’t fully agree with the parallel between Rachmaninov and Dostoyevsky, there definitely is a Deep relationship seen from the foreign eye, but the relevance triples and blooms if you compare Rachmaninov to Pasternak. You will literally hear Rachmaninov reading “Doctor Zhivago”. To me it’s not just minor or dark, it’s probably living on the edge or a marginal area and learning to love and sacrifice in the face of most tragic times. It’s a way of seeing a ray of light between the stormy clouds I guess, and it is transcendental (exceeding any life) channeled through Russians. It’s because they had to blend western and eastern cultures growing in between them for thousands of years.

@robertclark6800 3 года назад

Yes!

@dankurth4232 3 года назад

LOL maybe because there aren’t paintings by Dostojevski

@wellurban 3 года назад

Some nice analysis here. Another French composer whose work shares some features with Satie and Debussy, yet who had her own distinct style, was Lili Boulanger. Some beautiful use of parallelism and ambiguous tonality in her work, as well as exquisite orchestration.

@hydropage2855 2 года назад

I teared up when you played Debussy’s Rêverie at 5:50. I poured my heart and soul into that song and I can now play it to the best of my ability. I truly did tear up when you put it on. Thank you

@felixmladenov5428 3 года назад

And that's why they, especially Ravel, are my most beloved: The qualities that the composers influenced by germanic school have (the deep look into soul and sorrow) are things which a human being will face on earth often enough.

@minty-es8me 3 года назад

same! my escapism really showed… 😂

@Scriabinfan593 3 года назад

Same here, I’ve always loved the French style more than the Germanic style

@davidmorris8319 3 года назад

French music is great for this! But i feel like germanic music has a bit of a wrong/bad image in this regard. Not all germanic music is depressed, serious Beethoven/Wagner. It's just that these two are the poster children for it somehow... Haydn literally single-handedly invented the classical style of thematic variation, which is the foundation for literally everything composed after that. Listen to some Haydn Symphonies or piano sonatas. They are way lighter than Beethoven. I always feel like on a calm and sunny spring morning when listening to Haydn. Mozart too is very light-hearted.

@manolitosanchez 3 года назад

Talking about rule books, it was French composer Rameau the one who wrote the great harmony treatise focusing on the notion of "fundamental". Maybe the Germans were playing by the French rule book all along.

@InsidetheScore 3 года назад

Hahaha true, true! To an extent. Rameau's treatise is quite different from the voice-leading style of Bach though, if you go through the rules he lays out

@tamaskarolyi2106 2 года назад

@@InsidetheScore But Bach's voice-leading style was 1) not the foundation for Haydn, Mozart Beethoven 2) dates back to late renaissance counterpoint: Palestrina of course and on the other route through Schütz and his huge influence on german protestant music back to Gabrieli and Lassus. And ultimately all that dates back to Josquin, Ockeghem, Du Fay... and from there to ars nova and ars antiqua, where we find French composers again. Music history didn't start with Bach's generation, and what Bach did was in no way avantgarde or forward-looking in his time... he didn't do anything that composers before him didn't do already...

@jasonschwartzmanstein9661 2 года назад

@@tamaskarolyi2106 “What Bach did was in no way avant-garde or forward looking in his time” What a complete crock of shit

@tamaskarolyi2106 2 года назад

@@jasonschwartzmanstein9661 Bach was pretty conservative in his time. He wrote great music, but not avant-garde music. Telemann was more avant-garde as him. What I said is not about how good his music is, but how is it placed in his time.

@navghtivs 3 года назад

I feel Erik Satie is the more French-sound one of them.

@eriksatieofficiel 3 года назад

Thank you.

@VisiblyJacked 3 года назад

@@eriksatieofficiel yo Erik when your new track comin out??

@eduardovaldesdelrazo2259 3 года назад

ravel is too

@BenjaminGessel 3 года назад

Satie is French, Debussy is French + Asian - kind of, and Ravel is Spanish (Basque) + Swiss. 😁😁😁

@bozzigmupp510 3 года назад

@@BenjaminGessel Asian?

@lesgoe8908 Год назад

This is about as good an explanation of Debussy's "Franchiness" as one could make in 16 minutes -- historic, biographic, and analytic. Superb!

@michellamontagne 2 года назад

Thank you so much. I am French Canadian, but that is not why I am writing to you. I have already listened to some of your videos and it touched me deeply. I even shed tears because you were able to express on several occasions how I feel deep inside about music. I wanted to comment earlier, but now I am taking the time to do so. Your passion for music without any arrogance is admirable. I am now subscribed to your channel. I'm less than an amateur, but I've been trying to compose for over a year. I would do this 48 hours a day! Thanks again!

@waynedombrowski7568 3 года назад

I believe a clue to Claude's uniqueness may be in spending his formative years in Russia studying Mussorgsky. He escaped the smothering dominance of Wagner. The older Saint Saens assumed the German school was the only path foreward. He coudn't 'get' Debussy. If you want some good chuckles from German love of polyphony versus French love of lyricism,read Strauss' commentary on Berlioz' Treatise On Instrumentation. Also,Mark DeVoto has a superb book out full of analysis of all of Debussy's major works. I found it very illuminating.

@fretnesbutke3233 2 года назад

Mark DeVoto,"Debussy And The Veil Of Tonality"

@alexandrugheorghe5610 Год назад

I am unable to comprehend how anyone can like Wagner.

@conforzo Год назад

Although Wagner is phenomenal

@rebeccathornemusic 2 года назад

One of the best feelings is when something is explained to you in a way that makes it seem so simple and obvious that you wonder why you didn't already know this before. Thank you for this video

@frederikespersenknudsen6708 3 года назад

Please, PLEASE, do a video on Prelude à laprès-midi d'un faune! It is an incredible piece with so much to uncover, to learn, and to experience. Its impact on the world of music cannot be understated, and would make for a perfect theme for one of your productions! Nonetheless, it is by far my favourite piece, and seeing you cover it in any way or form would be incredible! Keep up your good work; your videos are works of art!

@tweshasaini7957 3 года назад

Yess pleasee!

@stravinskyfan 3 года назад

“On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly.” - Debussy

@jimslancio 2 года назад

There's a RU-vid video of a lecture by Leonard Bernstein, called "The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity," one of six lectures delivered at Harvard in the early 1970s. The final part of it is an analysis of the Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. You might find that worth a look.

@Luke-ji5ws 2 года назад

@@stravinskyfan but when you learn how to fly like the butterfly, on your instrument, you gain the ability to step into this world of music yourself. I want to understand how to play with chords and improvise as though I'm in the same place as these amazing peices. Such amazing beauty.

@alexandrugheorghe5610 Год назад

@@Luke-ji5ws then you should check out Nahre Sol's RU-vid videos.

@Leonhart_93 3 года назад

The titles of the Debussy's Preludes are a setting for an amazing atmosphere.

@cd-gr3wq 3 года назад

Nice! I'd love a "what makes Isaac Albéniz sound Spanish" video.

@krzysztofkurylek5594 3 года назад

Debussy wrote in 1893 "Chabrier, Moussorgsky, Palestrina, voilà ce que j'aime" - they are what I love.

@willymusic1456 3 года назад

I find it really interesting to connect Debussy to jazz. You talk about how consonance was re-defined and I think that is essential for jazz music as jazz uses almost every chord under the sun.

@TheMusicalKnokcers 3 года назад

yeah debussy was a fucking jazzman he didn't give a fuck about using original chords

@TheAskald 3 года назад

Satie saranbandes definitely sound like jazz to me

@jonathanj5797 3 года назад

"Germanic composers were the rule-makers" Palestrina: Am I a joke to you?

@InsidetheScore 3 года назад

Well yes I was talking post-Bach

@AEPMUSlC 3 года назад

xD I've studied his music and it's ridiculous how strict it is but yet it sounds so good.

@simonsmatthew 2 года назад

@@AEPMUSlC I think one day Palestrina will be really discovered and become something of a sensation.

@PatrickStypinsky 3 года назад

I remember the first time I heard my brother play Debussy - I spent many nights pleading for him to play while I was falling asleep. It is the music of dreams. Nice video 🙏

@joycesanders4898 3 года назад

🎶💤

@simonsmatthew 2 года назад

I agree. It is dreamy. The blogger says the music is sad. I disagree. It isn't sad as say Chopin is. For me its very soothing and spiritually fulfilling.

@its-movietime 3 года назад

Debussy and Satie should have been included in 'The Death of Melody' video for breaking the pattern of strong melodies.

@domingopartida5812 3 года назад

Debussy’s use of whole tone scales, eastern influenced scales, and him and Ravel being French, and possibly frenemies, has made their particular style famous. Here’s something interesting, when most people hear Morriconne, an Italian, they think of American cowboys from his music composed for spaghetti westerns.

@jerielk.6975 3 года назад

Debussy is my favorite composer of all, I think. I love playing his music, and listening to it. Thank you for this video!

@j0hn676 3 года назад

Faure is also really french sounding but in a different way; his early and mid period works are firmly in the romantic vein, but his later works also take some (not all, the perfect cadence remained in his vocabulary but he made them weaker) of the features of impressionism, with weird voice leading, lack of resolution to dissonances, parallelism, wholetone scales. he did teach ravel, so there's an element of Faure being a precursor to this soundworld too. recommend listening to his later piano works and song cycles, and the piano trio and string quartet

@simonsmatthew 2 года назад

Chopin had a large influence on Debussy and Ravel. Although obviously Mazurkas are Polish pastiche, really Chopin was instrumental in developing a French sound. He was based in Paris, lived in France most of his life and father was French. You can see the link with the French chanson, Chopin, Faure, Poulence, Debussy and Ravel. Debussy edited an edition of Chopin's Ballades.

@olelain 5 месяцев назад

You have an immense culture. This is certainly the most interesting video on classical music I've seen on RU-vid.

@vpsaxman 3 года назад

Really a delight to listen to a narrator so in love with the subject he narrates. Thanks for the great video!

@Noah-ws8ho 3 года назад

I feel this is all very incomplete without the mention of Franz Liszt, a composer that pioneered many of the ideas of french impressionistic music in his last 20 years (well before Satie, mind you), and is well-documented to have been a major inspiration for composers such as Debussy and Ravel, that openly admired his work (and made references to it in their own). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_works_of_Franz_Liszt Listen to the middle section, here, for example, 2:30 onward: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CWN18ZoqzGs.html (Both Ravel and Debussy wrote their own Jeux D'eau, in reference to this piece)

@maxalaintwo3578 3 года назад

He deserves his own feature-lengths documentary. What a character

@charlesbluett8195 3 года назад

Liszt certainly pioneered non-functional harmony. Where Beethoven pioneered the use of diminished modulation Liszt did the same with augmented modulation. He even wrote a "bagatelle sans tonalité". Liszt's water games at la Villa d'Este and even Chopin's barcarolle make use of colourful chord extensions (and not as suspensions) well before either of the composer's in this video.

@BenjaminGessel 3 года назад

To be honest folks, I think most people prefer the music of Debussy, etc. (also Satie somewhat, even) over Liszt. Its more of the reason why Liszt gets overlooked, time and time again, even though we all know his piano skill was unsurpassed in his day... Liszt fans are mostly pianists, and tend to be more focused around classical music. Oh sure, you get a few hard rock folks, etc., but not many, with Liszt. Debussy fans are into jazz, world music, easy listening, all KINDS of stuff outside of just classical music. Same deal with Satie (in the Debussy camp). 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@geneklee7608 3 года назад

@@BenjaminGessel It’s the same reason why everyone prefers impressionist painting to romantic and realist art. There’s nothing disturbing in Monet’s art, nothing that requires any historical knowledge or political perspective. One never has to ask “What does this mean?”. No strife, no conflict, no unpleasant emotions, no connection to any particular time, nothing mysterious. This is why it is so easy for so many different people to enjoy his painting.

@BenjaminGessel 3 года назад

@@geneklee7608 😊😊😊👌👌👌👌

@segmentsAndCurves 3 года назад

I was not expecting a long video like this, but it certainly blew me away. Great job!

@segmentsAndCurves 3 года назад

Also, the Eric Satie drop is so funny!

@ivanfalloutfoo123 3 года назад

Really happy to have found your channel, you really inspire true passion in what you're talking in each video, thank you !

@Liskafm352 3 года назад

Your channel deserves a lot more followers. Excellent job. Thank you!

@carlosrodriguez414 3 года назад

Finally, avideo detailing the differences between French and German music, and easy to understamd. Many thanks!

@timofeygolev 3 года назад

We need more channels like this one

@Apologeticsophist 3 года назад

Thank you, sir. Such a beautifully expressed and thoroughly researched topic. Well done.

@brianlaakso1117 3 года назад

i really enjoyed this video. As a piano player that has played many of the preludes i loved exploring all the different modes and whole tone scales debussy used to create beautiful music. i'm showing this to my sons because it was very helpful in understanding the concepts. thanks

@keroykk 3 года назад

I am amazed by how you managed to sync your speech in introduction and an introduction of Reflets dans l'eau. Loved your video👍

@MattheasBoelter 3 года назад

Excellent breakdown! I really enjoyed hearing a bit more about the historical context these composers came from! It really helps show why this style is as vibrant as it is. Btw, thumbnail looks great ;)

@SamStormsKBD 3 года назад

Man, your work here on RU-vid is of magnificent valor. Never stop it

@kofiLjunggren 3 года назад

Wow! This was really well done

@hl4292 3 года назад

This was such a fascinating video. Love your work!

@Blakemarble Год назад

So happy someone is making videos like this. Thank you! ❤

@kaylynhtun9495 2 года назад

yo you just made me so interested in music, its so amazing how this single video can open up worlds you never knew you existed

@hannahausbandscheidt375 3 года назад

This was fascinating! Thank you!

@srothbardt Год назад

Excellent lecture video!

@ulianasadova7438 3 года назад

I never knew I needed this video so much! Thanks man!

@bjb0808 2 года назад

Beautifully done.

@TheAskald Год назад

I come back to this video every few months, truly a wonderful creation.

@ChrisChapin_chapes 3 года назад

Thank you for the content, it is so thoroughly crafted I think I can sink in to each sentence. Super impressive and a huge inspiration

@corrinneloudon525 Год назад

Thank you, this is eye and ear opening!

@agostinho_piano Год назад

Loved the explanation, makes me understand better why I feel such an affinity with french music

@Baggydawg1 3 года назад

Amazing video, thank you for this wonderful breakdown of one of my favourite composers!

@patpercu 3 года назад

One of the most pertinent and respectful “exposé” of French music of the beginning of the 20th century. 😍

@lelouchlamperouge7883 3 года назад

Fascinating video! Thank you for your work

@J7o7s7e7p7h 3 года назад

One of the Best Clear Explanation Thank you for sharing your knowledge with everyone on RU-vid Thx Bravo!

@9UaYXxB 11 месяцев назад

I'm so grateful for 'les impressionistes' ! So full of grace and insight and reverence for this gift of being alive.

@samaritan29 3 года назад

Could you possibly make a video on a breakdown of romantic Russian classical music...? Like the great romantic russian composers - Balakirev, "The five", Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Scriabin, Rachmaninoff. whether it be their use of the Lithurgy from the Russian Orthodox church, russian folk songs, orientalism - what makes their melodies sound distinctly russian?

@elpidatheo3373 3 года назад

I would really love that too!

@jamesongaertner9416 3 года назад

If you wanna talk about Balakirev and “the five”, you need to talk about Glinka. He largely inspired all of them and laid the foundation for Russian classical music.

@zackl7467 3 года назад

Medtner too and feinberg

@samaritan29 3 года назад

@@jamesongaertner9416 oh i mean glinka and "the five" i always get him and balakirev mixed up xD

@marcusvoght 3 года назад

Wow! Well done. This is one of the best videos on your channel. Bravo!

@Giancarlo_DellErnia 3 года назад

What a wonderful video. Thank you so much!

@simonjarvis6542 3 года назад

Fantastic video. Thank you. It's strange how the Debussy's radical (as perceived in the early 20th C) ideas and his influence on the development of modern "Classical" music has not perhaps been recognised to the same extent as the 2nd Viennese School. Yet his influence was profound (Ravel, Gershwin, early Bartok, Stravinsky, Messaien, De Falla etc. and some Jazz musicians such as Bill Evans and Eric Dolphy).As well as his novel use of harmony I think his (and Ravel's) timbral subtlety is influential particularly with the likes of Henri Dutilleux and the Spectralism composers. Wow; I've just listed many of my favourite composers,

@georgekirazian5591 3 года назад

Incredible analysis. Thank you so much for posting....

@elPiponsio 3 года назад

What an interesting video man, please do more with this style, great stuff

@lennyturteltaub3576 3 года назад

Great video! You did an amazing job explaining such complex and subtle pieces. I'd really enjoy watching more videos on early 20th century french composers. A video on Ravel would be great, as he was of course influenced by Debussy but also influenced him in return with pieces like Jeux d'eau (and also because he is my favourite composer ^^). There is so much to be said about his music, which varies from neo classicism (Pavane pour une infante défunte) and impressionism (Miroirs) to jazz (Piano concerto in G) and blues (Violin and Piano sonata no.2), and he would also be a good introduction to great orchestration!

@Noah-ws8ho 3 года назад

I feel Liszt is missing here, first and foremost. He wrote the *first* Jeux D'eau, that inspired Ravel's, after all. His experimentation in his last years, in general, is known to have been a major and direct inspiration for impressionistic music. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CWN18ZoqzGs.html

@dimitrismantzounis4234 3 года назад

great video. enjoyed it greatly

@sirya-bookie9495 3 года назад

Congratulations on 200,000 subscribers! Here’s to a million!

@markelliottdriver Год назад

Great video, thanks!

@ergnoor3551 3 года назад

I applaud to your work dear friend! Thank you!

@victorsimon5749 3 года назад

thanks for this video, i would love to hear more analysis as this one

@allertonoff4 3 года назад

ProperCool essay .. glad U brought the visual arts into the mix ! :]

@MrKeithterrett 2 года назад

An excellent video thanks for making & positing.

@vaneyck8186 3 года назад

Perfect Videography,love the video man

@johnmarraffa5079 3 года назад

Just as I never tire of listening to the music of Debussy, I can't get my fill of analysis of his works and his style. Thank you. This was enjoyable on its own and left me wanting more.

@oliviobertolini88 Год назад

This channel has some deep content, very good content to understant impressionism.

@AkiMoonlight 3 года назад

Great video, very inspiring! I want more!!

@helenedevys2498 3 года назад

Je suis tellement fière d'être française quand j'entends les merveilleuses oeuvres de Debussy !

@maxalaintwo3578 3 года назад

Chuis étonné que je peux comprendre qu'est-ce que vous dites. Je pense que je deviens meilleur à ecrire et lire français. Ecouter à parlance rapide, sur l'autre main...

@walther2273 3 года назад

@aSCent_ICO 🤣 ce troll

@walther2273 3 года назад

@aSCent_ICO non

@otomj 3 года назад

Et moi je suis fier d'être français quand je vois ce commentaire :)

@cherigrubbs9628 Год назад

Yes, so you should! 😊 Debussy has been my favourite since I was a young girl, and that was very many years ago. If I could play only his works on my piano, I would still be satisfied! I am also happy we share a birthday (August 22)

@RuiVilar1 2 года назад

Brilliant! Thank you.

@petitoiseaubleu 3 года назад

I enjoyed this video a lot. Thank you! 🙏🏻

@raulterra_pianista 3 года назад

Amazing vídeo!!!! Fauré is a good exemple too about The elegance of french music. Congratulations 👏👏👏👏

@composer7325 Год назад

thank you for this excellent video.

@brianmegyessi6224 3 года назад

This was fascinating!

@nicolasdelaforge7420 7 месяцев назад

I've never understood what the word 'beauty' meant until it was noted, here, in Satie - and onward. Great scholarship... rare level of comprehension... First time I want to thank the presenter. Will watch the rest of your work analysis.

@Xerxes2005 3 года назад

I have realized that most of my favorite composers are French: Saint-Saëns, Berlioz, Fauré, Satie, Debussy. Maybe it's because I have been introduced to classical music with Le Carnaval des Animaux from Saint-Saëns and Le Boléro from Ravel? Éric Satie is an acquired taste though. When I was younger, I thought his Gymnopédie was boring. Now, I listen to it often. That and Gnossienne No1, one of his best, in my opinion.

@Bimanche Год назад

wonderful video! Thanks :)

@DiorFaerie 2 года назад

This is amazing!

@janeburrows3172 2 года назад

Brilliant. Thank you.

@babybeel8787 3 года назад

Wonderful video. Thank you.

@JimHopper 3 года назад

Brilliant video - thank you

@LuizFelipe-lk1hs 3 года назад

French music sounds a bit sad like a rainy afternoon on a weekend when you had plans to go out but the rain spoiled it.

@Pfsif 3 года назад

That's weather in France most of the time.

@Tempusverum 3 года назад

It sounds lush and natural, with a hint of melancholy

@l-esprit_de_l-ouest 3 года назад

@@Pfsif wtf? South of France is very sunny. There are many climates in France.

@chong2389 3 года назад

Les Feuilles Mortes supports your thesis. So many French songs use the same chord progression.

@marizacabral5141 3 года назад

@@l-esprit_de_l-ouest Is the French equivalent of "wtf" written "cqcb"?

@roinymphornithorynque3282 3 года назад

Perfect vibe, thanks

@Leonhart_93 3 года назад

This video taught me concepts I didn't even know existed! I will keep an ear out for impressionistic style music.

@sanfordpress8943 Год назад

An amazing presentation

@MostlyIC 2 года назад

this was great, I really appreciated it, as a self-taught adult student of the piano I'm always wondering what the theory is behind what I'm trying to play (I know how chords are named, and things like circle of fifths, II-V-I, etc) but what you explained is something I could not have figured out by myself, many, many thanks. I do hope you do more.

@baoanhvu8356 3 года назад

I would love to see a video or a series of videos that explains what makes each nation's music unique.

@colinburgess7728 3 года назад

T his is life-changing for me, a 60s rock muso who loves Bach Mozart and Beethoven. I am going to listen t this music with new ears and incorporate it into my future compositions. Many many thanks

@evanlohning 3 года назад

Fantastic, excellent!! -subscribed

@MichaelLoda 3 года назад

Splendid video, thank you, I learned a lot

@jean-baptiste6479 3 года назад

Brilliant demonstration

@Cancoillotteman 3 года назад

If you want to understand these sounds, remember that melancholy and nostalgia are originally French words, while sorrow and anger are Germanic saxon words

@sugarfree1894 3 года назад

Storm und Drang