Review

Last Wednesday, the 30th of November we went to Barcelona to see the Russian ballet of Diaghilev, the exhibition lasted since 1909 to 1929. Diaghilev was a producer and a choreographer, he met all the artist to made the ballet, artist from all over the world and from different areas. For the sets, the costumes and the posters he worked with Picasso, Matisse, Chanel... .The dancers were Fokine, Nijinski, Paulova, Karsavina among others. And for the music of the ballet he chose musicians like Stravinski, Falla, Strauss, Rimski-Korsakov and Claude Debussy, the musician whose biography I'm writing about.

Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a French composer and one of the most important composer of impressionistic music although he didn't like that term.
Debussy was admitted to the conservatory when he was just ten years old he spent 12 years there studying. In 1884 he won the Prix the Rome, and that way he received a scholarship for being three years in "Vil·la Medicis" in Rome but there he only managed made four compositions and for that reason two years before that he quit and went back to France. In 1889 he went to the Universal Exhibition of Paris and he descovered new sounds that influenced his compositions. his first great success was Suite Bergamasque followed by Prélude à l'après.midi d'un faune.
In 1909 he collaborated with Diaghilev in the Russian ballet. Nijinski , partner of Diaghilev, used Prélude à l'après.midi d'un faune to create a revolutionary ballet dance. For his second ballet Nijinski asked to Debussy an original composition,called Jeux.
Although Debussy belongs to romanticism, the compositions he made for the ballet established the basis for modern dance.