Music Of The Great Composers --

Claude Debussy-Part 6 His Sound Knowledge His early training was conventional and academic, and seemingly in no way conducive to the independent ideas he has formulated for himself. Born at St. Germain-en_Laye, 1862, he began his studies at that most conservative institution, the Paris Conservatoire. He obtained medals for solfege and piano playing, and finally, 1884, the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata L'enfant Prodigue. He said that his music court le risq..