Celebrating Debussy

The British pianist Stephen Hough, writing for The New York Times, marks the centenary of the Claude Debussy’s death. His exploitation of overtones, “forming a halo over every note,” set him apart from earlier composers, Hough writes, adding that no other composer wrote so idiomatically for his instrument: “This is music of the piano as much as for the piano.”

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