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Debussy: Images Book I

May 12, 2010 Piano Music by Alexander Timofeev

Composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) is closely associated with the Impressionist movement in art which took place at the crossing of the 19th and 20th centuries. Claude Monet’s famous paining Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise) of 1872 is suggested to have coined the term Impressionism. In painting, the impressionists have been long criticized for the unfinished, sketchy quality of their work. This criticism could be traced to musical world as well; Debussy’s music was regarded by many critics as sketchy, formless, morbid and decadent. It took more that several decades

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Liszt's Dante Sonata - Program Notes

May 05, 2010 General Music Topics by Alexander Timofeev

Theater, literature, painting, sculpture and music – the 19th century European cities have seen a vast array of prodigies and gifted artists who gained inspiration from various artistic experiences. Few artists surpassed the boundaries of their art. One of them was Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). The ideas of Mephistopheles, Heaven and Hell, death, faith and religion preoccupied Liszt’s musical genius for many decades.

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