To help formulate his philosophy of music, this composer created an alter ego, Monsieur Croche, with whom he would carry on imaginary dialogues about musical innovation.
To help formulate his philosophy of music, this composer created an alter ego, Monsieur Croche, with whom he would carry on imaginary dialogues about musical innovation. Constantly seeking new ways to break the rules of harmony in Western music, he experimented with a 21-tone scale system and went back to the early modes of medieval music for some of his pieces. His piano works include Evening in Granada and Suite bergamasque, which contains the familiar Clair de lune. FTP, who is this composer of the Children's Corner suite, Images, and La mer?
To help formulate his philosophy of music, this composer created an alter ego, Monsieur Croche, with whom he would carry on imaginary dialogues about musical innovation.
Claude Debussy