He was not quite 18 at the time and travelled to Switzerland, Italy and Russia with the family ... He encouraged Debussy to write music that was not hidebound by academic tradition – ‘Break the rules, ...

In this short film Howard Goodall examines Claude Debussy and the transition away from traditional composition methods. Debussy was influenced by Russian composers such as Modest Mussorgsky ...

Presented by Martin Handley. “Let us fly without rest or pause into the land of my dreams…” For Claude Debussy, the poetry of Baudelaire conjured new and ravishing colours, just waiting to ...