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Celebrity Introduction Made by Celine Joanne Video Claude-Achille Debussy Do you know this picture？ This is an impressionist painting , and Debussy was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music . Biography Early life and studies Private life Death Early life and studies Claude Debussy was born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, 22 August 1862, the eldest of five children. Debussy began piano lessons there at the age of seven years with an Italian violinist in his early forties named Cerutti. In 1871 he drew the attention of Marie Mauté de Fleurville,who claimed to have been a pupil of Frédéric Chopin. in 1872, when he was ten, Debussy entered the Paris Conservatoire, where he spent eleven years. Private life Debussy‘s private life was often turbulent（狂乱的，骚乱的）. At the age of 18 he began an eight-year affair with Blanche Vasnier, wife of a Parisian lawyer. The relationship eventually faltered following his winning of the Prix de Rome and obligatory residence in Rome. Death Debussy died of rectal cancer in Paris on 25 March 1918.He had been diagnosed with the cancer and after then he experienced many operations. The operation achieved only a temporary respite（缓解）, and occasioned him considerable frustration. His death occurred in the midst of the aerial and artillery bombardment of Paris during the German Spring Offensive of World War I. The funeral procession made its way through deserted streets to Père Lachaise Cemetery as the German guns bombarded the city. The military situation in France was critical, and did not permit the honour of a public funeral with ceremonious graveside orations. Debussy’s body was reinterred（改葬）shortly afterwards in the small Passy Cemetery sequestered behind the Trocadéro（特罗卡德洛）. His wife and daughter are buried with him. About his music 管弦乐 《牧神午后前奏曲》(Prelude a lapres-midi dun faune)（1894年） 《夜曲》(Nocturnes)（1899年） 《大海》(La Mer)（