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Newsletter 8th Feb 2010

Debussy and the Prix de Rome

French composer Claude Debussy first entered the Prix de Rome in 1882 aged just 20. It was a very important competition for young French composers with the prize for the winner including a four-year residence at the Villa Medici (the French Academy) in Rome, where they could meet new people and develop their compositional style further. The competition rules required a series of compositions to be written but, as Debussy knew only too well, to win you had to compose within a rather formulaic style in order not to offend the tastes of the judges. Debussy took two years to master this ‘game’ (as he ... [more]
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