STYLISTIC FEATURES OF CLAUDE DEBUSSY’S WORKS

Abstract

This study examines the stylistic characteristics of Impressionism and the works of Claude Debussy in French art at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Impressionism, one of the most striking and intriguing movements to emerge in French art in the last quarter of the 19th century, arose in a highly complex environment characterized by diversity and contrasts. Impressionism first manifested itself in painting. Artists associated with this movement include C. Monet, O. Renoir, C. Pissarro, A. Sisley, and E. Degas. Impressionists broke away from traditional rules and created a new painting method in an effort to express their immediate impressions of objects as accurately as possible. Unlike pictorial Impressionism, which is represented by the names of many important masters, the representatives of musical Impressionism include P. Dukas, F. Schmitt, L. Auber, Ch. Keklen (early in his career), J. Roger Dukas, M. Ravel, but its most prominent representative is Claude Debussy. Debussy composed songs and romances in particular when he was sixteen years old. By the mid-1890s, the composer's creative maturity had shaped his unique style of musical impressionism. Claude Debussy was one of the most interesting and exploratory artists of his time, always seeking new ways to develop his skills.