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Claude Debussy (1862–1918)

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Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, near Paris, France. His father was a salesman and kept a china shop. His mother was a seamstress. Some traumatizing events in his childhood caused him a depression and he never spoke about his early years. Later he could not compose without having his favorite porcelain frog... See full bio »

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Achille-Claude Debussy
in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

Died:

(age 55) in Paris, France
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2010 Hullaballoo(n) (short) (writer: "Clair de Lune from 'Suite Bergamasque'") (post-production)
 
2013 Phineas and Ferb (TV series)
– Sidetracked (2013) (writer: "Clair de Lune")
 
2012/II Doomsday (short) ("Nuages Clouds")
 
2012 Wasteland (video) ("Claire De Lune" / as Debussy)
 
2012 Tai Chi Zero (writer: "Claire de Lune")
 
2012 Atop the Fourth Wall (TV series)
– The New Teen Titans Anti-Drug PSA (2012) ("Claire De Lune")
 
2012 Kids on the Slope (TV series)
– Moanin' (2012) (writer: "Claire de lune")
 
2012 The Brass Menagerie (short) ("Claire de Lune")
 
2012/I Wakey Wakey (writer: "Pour Invoquer Pan, Dieu du Vent d'Ete")
 
2012 Musik in der Luft (TV movie) (writer: "Clair de Lune" / as C. Debussy)
 
2011 90210 (TV series)
– Up in Smoke (2011) ("Claire De Lune" - uncredited)
 
2011 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (writer: "Clair de Lune")
 
2011 Et ils gravirent la montagne (short) (writer: "Nuages", from "Nocturnes")
 
2011 The Nostalgia Critic (TV series)
– The X-Men Cartoon (2011) (music: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
2011 Puella Magi Madoka Magica (TV series)
– Konna no Zettai Okashiiyo (2011) (writer: "La fille aux cheveux de lin The Girl with the Flaxen Hair")
 
2010 White Collar (TV series)
– Need to Know (2010) (performer: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
2010 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (writer: "Clair de Lune" / performer: "Clair de Lune")
 
2010 La Rafle ("Clair de Lune")
 
2010 Coursier (writer: "Clair de lune" excerpt)
 
2010 Dinner Date (video short) (writer: "Golliwog's Catwalk")
 
2009 Glee: Director's Cut Pilot Episode (video) (writer: "Golliwog's Cakewalk" - uncredited)
 
2009 Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (TV documentary short) (writer: "Clair De Lune")
 
2009 Nel nome del male (TV movie) (writer: "Prelude 7 'The Girld with the Flaxen Hair'")
 
2009 Glee (TV series)
– Pilot (2009) (writer: "Golliwog's Cakewalk" - uncredited)
 
2009 Certainty (documentary) (writer: "Des Pas Sur La Neige")
 
2009 In the Loop (writer: "Sonata for Violin and Piano I. Allegro Vivo")
 
2008/I Twilight (writer: "Claire de Lune")
 
2008 Pelléas et Mélisande, le chant des aveugles (documentary) (music: "Pelléas et Mélisande")
 
2008 Kissing Paris (writer: "Mouvement")
 
2008 Tokyo Sonata (writer: "Claire de Lune")
 
2008 Brotherly (short) ("Images II pour piano: Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fuit")
 
2008 Made of Honor (writer: "Arabesque No. 1")
 
2008 Adagio sostenuto ("Et la lune descends sur le temple qui fuit")
 
2008 Parashat Ha-Shavua (TV series)
– VaYakhel (2008) (writer: "Claire De Lune", "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", "Préludes - Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest" / performer: "Claire De Lune", "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", "Préludes - Ce qu'a vu le vent d'ouest")
 
2007 The Simpsons (TV series)
– He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs (2007) (music: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
2007 Teardrop (short) (writer: "Arabesque")
 
2007 The Darjeeling Limited (writer: "Debussy: 3. Clair de Lune Suite Bergamasque")
 
2007 Atonement (writer: "Clair de Lune")
 
2007 Discovering Masterpieces of Classical Music (TV series documentary)
– Claude Debussy: La mer (writer: "La Mer")
 
2007 Ocean's Thirteen (writer: "Suite Bergamasque, Clair de Lune, No. 3" 1890-1905)
 
2007 En marge des jours (TV movie) (writer: "Quatuor en Sol Mineur Op. 18")
 
2006 Kyut (documentary short) (music: "Claire de Lune")
 
2006 Fiction (writer: "Clair de lune")
 
2006 A Good Year (writer: "2 Arabesques: No. 1 Andantino con Moto")
 
2006 The Near East (writer: "Claro de luna Clair de lune")
 
2006 Last Train to Freo (writer: "Claire de Lune")
 
2006 Sisters (video) (writer: "Clair de lune" - uncredited)
 
2005 Strange Circus (writer: "Clair de Lune" / as Cloude Debussy)
 
2005 The First Day of My Life (short) (writer: "Claire de Lune")
 
2005 Alma Gêmea (TV series)
 
2005 You're Gonna Miss Me (documentary) (writer: "Des Pas Sur La Neige")
 
2004 Gran Turismo 4 (Video Game) (writer: "La fille aux cheveux de lin", "Clair de lune", "Reverie")
 
2004 Ladies in Lavender. ("The Girl With The Flaxen Hair")
 
2004 Man on Fire (writer: "Clair de Lune")
 
2004 Red Lights (writer: "Nuages")
 
2003 Drakengard (Video Game) (writer: "Le Mer")
 
2003 Ginger and Cinnamon (writer: "Quatuor en Sol Mineur Assez vif et bien rythmé")
 
2002 Joyful Partaking (writer: "Le Cathedral Engloutie")
 
2002 Dog Soldiers ("Clair de Lune")
 
2001 Ocean's Eleven (writer: "Clair de lune de la 'Suite Bergamasque' - Adante tres expressif", "Clair de lune from 'Suite Bergamasque'")
 
2001 Nijinsky: The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky ("L'Après-Midi d'un Faune")
 
2001 Bartleby (writer: "Preludes" / as Debussy)
 
2001 Monarch of the Glen (TV series)
– Episode #2.1 (2001) ("Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
2000 Rick Wakeman: The Legend Live in Concert 2000 (video) (writer: "Clair De Lune")
 
2000 Zawa-zawa Shimo-Kitazawa (music: "CLAIR DE LUNE" from SUITE BERGAMASQUE)
 
2000 The Golden Bowl (music: "Sarabande, from 'Pour le Piano'")
 
1999 Bicentennial Man (writer: "Petite Suite")
 
1999 The Craic (writer: "Arabesque#1 in E Major")
 
1999/I Pelléas et Mélisande (TV movie) (music: "Pelléas et Mélisande" / "Pelléas et Mélisande")
 
1999/II Pelléas et Mélisande (TV movie) (writer: "Pelléas et Mélisande")
 
1998 Everybody Loves Raymond (TV series)
– The Wedding: Part 2 (1998) (music: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1997 Seven Years in Tibet (writer: "Clair de Lune")
 
1997 The Game (writer: "Clair De Lune")
 
1997 Little Red Riding Hood (short) ("Prélude à l'Aprés-Midi d'un Faun")
 
1996 Bloodsport III (video) ("Clair De Lune")
 
1996 Ruth Orkin: Frames of Life (documentary short) (music: "Golliwoog's Cake Walk")
 
1991-1996 The Ren & Stimpy Show (TV series)
– Sammy and Me/The Last Temptation (1996) (music: "Canope" - uncredited)
– Ren's Pecs/An Abe Divided (1993) (music: "Clair De Lune" - uncredited)
– Son of Stimpy (1993) (music: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
– In the Army/Powdered Toastman (1992) (music: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" - uncredited)
– Fire Dogs/Stimpy's Storybook Land: The Littlest Giant (1991) (writer: "Clair De Lune from Suite Bergamasque" - uncredited)
 
1996 Long Vacation (TV series)
 
1995 Other Voices, Other Rooms (writer: "Prelude No. 6 Des pas sur la neige")
 
1995 Life 101 (video) (writer: "Sirens")
 
1995 The Usual Suspects (music: "Le sons et les parfums tournent dans l'air du soir")
 
1993 Six Degrees of Separation ("Quartet in G minor, Op. 10")
 
1993 Animaniacs (TV series)
– Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled/Moon Over Minerva/Skullhead Boneyhands (1993) (music: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1993 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues ("String Quartet in G Minor; Opus 10")
 
1993 Abraham Valley (music: "Après un rêve" from "3 Mélodies, op. 6" undredited / music: "Clair de Lune" / as Debussy)
 
1993 The Scent of Green Papaya (music: "Clair de lune, Suite Bergamasque" / as Debussy)
 
1992 The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (TV series)
– The Master Blackmailer (1992) (music: "Beau Soir" - uncredited)
 
1991 Frankie and Johnny (writer: "CLAIRE DE LUNE")
 
1990 La femme fardée (writer: "Reverie")
 
1990 Graffiti Bridge (writer: "Dance Sacrée et Dance Profane")
 
1990 Henry & June (writer: "Sonata for Violin and Piano: First Movement")
 
1990 May Fools (music: "Prélude: 'Général Lavine' Eccentric" / as Debussy)
 
1990 Look Who's Toxic (writer: "Syrinx")
 
1989 Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (writer: "Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum" and "Golliwog's Cake Walk")
 
1988 Camille Claudel (music: "Spleen")
 
1988 War and Remembrance (TV mini-series)
– Part 2 (1988) (music: "Clair de lune" - uncredited)
 
1988 Salome's Last Dance (music: "Le Martyre de Saint Sebastiane", "Le Parfum de la Nuit", "Clair de Lune", "Nuages", "Gigues" / arranger: "Gymnopedie No.3")
 
1988 Lady in White ("Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1988 Die Wicherts von nebenan (TV series)
– Zeit der Reife (1988) (writer: "Clair de lune")
 
1987 Best Seller (writer: "REVERIE")
 
1987 Pelléas et Mélisande (TV movie) (writer: "Pelléas et Mélisande")
 
1986 Castaway ("CLAIR DE LUNE")
 
1986 Letters to an Unknown Lover (TV movie) (music: "La Cathedrale Engloutie" - uncredited, "Les Danseuses de Delphes" - uncredited)
 
1986 The Adventures of Milo and Otis ("Dialogue du vent et de la mer")
 
1986 Down and Out in Beverly Hills (music: "Clair de lune" - uncredited)
 
1985 Escalier C (music: "Quatuor Opus 10" / as Debussy)
 
1984 Reflections (music: "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair" - uncredited)
 
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV mini-series)
– Crossing the River (1984) (music: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1983 The Right Stuff (writer: "Claire de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1983 And the Ship Sails On (writer: "Clair de Lune")
 
1983 Flashdance ("Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune")
 
1983 To the Lighthouse (TV movie) (music: "Clair de Lune")
 
1982 Antonieta (writer: "Claire de luna")
 
1982 Impressions de France (short) (writer: "Syrinx", "Nuages", "Claire de Lune" / arranger: "Trois Gymnopedies #1")
 
1981 Escape from New York ("Engulfed Cathedral")
 
1981 Great Performances: Dance in America (TV series)
– Nureyev and the Joffrey Ballet/In Tribute to Nijinsky (1981) (music: "L'Apres Midi d'un Faune")
 
1980 Raging Bull ("My Reverie" 1938)
 
1980 Nijinsky (writer: "L'Après-midi d'un faune", "JEUX" excerpts)
 
1979 3 by Cheever (TV mini-series)
– The 5:48 (1979) (writer: "Reverie" - uncredited)
 
1979 The Late Late Lien Show (TV series)
– Episode #1.3 (1979) (writer: "Wie heeft de Kat van Tante Lien gezien?")
 
1979 Le Petomane (short) (music: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1978 Bassie en Adriaan en het geheim van de sleutel (TV mini-series)
– Op reis naar Spanje (1978) (writer: "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun")
 
1977 The Muppet Show (TV series)
– Rudolf Nureyev (1977) (writer: "Claire de Lune")
 
1977 Doctor Who (TV series)
– The Robots of Death: Part One (1977) (writer: "Préludes, Book 1 no 8: La fille aux cheveux de lin The Girl With the Flaxen Hair")
 
1976 Peach Fuzz (writer: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1976 Allegro non troppo (writer: "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune")
 
1976 The Unanswered Question: Six Talks at Harvard (TV mini-series)
– The Delights and Dangers of Ambiguity (1976) (music: "Prelude a l'Apres Midi d'un Faune")
 
1976 El mundo de Gaudí (documentary short) (writer: "Danse Sacrée")
 
1976 Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer (TV series) ("Arabesque")
 
1975 Valentina (TV series) ("Arabesque #1")
 
1973 Full House (TV series)
– Episode dated 10 February 1973 (1973) (writer: "Images" - uncredited)
 
1969 Civilisation (TV series documentary)
– The Worship of Nature (1969) (writer: "La Mer" - uncredited, "Nocturnes" - uncredited)
 
1967 Casino Royale ("Claire De Lune")
 
1967 The Forsyte Saga (TV mini-series)
– Birth of a Forsyte (1967) (writer: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1966 Syrinx (short) (writer: "Syrinx")
 
1963 The Birds ("Arabesque nr. 1 in E" 1888 - uncredited)
 
1962 Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra (TV movie) (music: "La Mer")
 
1962 Twilight Zone (TV series)
– A Piano in the House (1962) ("Clair de Lune")
 
1961 Young People's Concerts: What Is Impressionism? (TV documentary) (music: "La Mer")
 
1961 La viaccia (writer: "Rhapsody for saxophone and orchestra")
 
1958 The Quiet American (writer: "La Cathédrale engloutie" - uncredited)
 
1956 Giant (music: "Clair de lune" 1905 - uncredited)
 
1956 The Walter Winchell Show (TV series)
– Episode #1.1 (1956) (music: "Moonlight Love" - uncredited)
 
1952 Toscanini: The Television Concerts, Vol. 8 - Music of Franck, Sibelius, Debussy and Rossini (TV special) (music: "Two Nocturnes")
 
1950 All About Eve (music: "Beau Soir" ca 1883 - uncredited)
 
1948 Portrait of Jennie (music: "Nuages", "The Girl With The Flaxen Hair", "Arabesque No. 1 in E")
 
1946 The Secret Heart ("La Plus que Lente")
 
1944 Music for Millions (music: "Clair de Lune" 1890 - uncredited)
 
1936 Lotusblomsten (short) (writer: "En bateau")
 
1936 Dodsworth (writer: "La fille aux cheveux de lin" - uncredited)
 
1936 Children's Corner (short) (writer: "Children's Corner")
 
1934 Death Takes a Holiday (music: "String Quartet In G Minor, Op.10: III" 1894 - uncredited)
 
1934 Bolero (writer: "Clair de Lune" - uncredited)
 
1931 Limite (writer: "String Quartet in G minor 1893, Opus 10" excerpt, "Golliwogg's Cakewalk", "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" 1894, "Fêtes")
 
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2012 Whale! (short) (music)
 
2012 Sudden Flashes of Light (short) (music)
 
2011 The Lost Princess (music)
 
2010 Gran Turismo 5 (Video Game) (music)
 
2010 Nocturne (music)
 
2009 KH1 (short) (composer: stock music)
 
2008 La capsule de l'homme-fiction (short) (composer: stock music)
 
2006 Bagoly-folyó (short) (composer: stock music)
 
2006 The Tuning Fork by Edward Gorey (short) (music)
 
2000 Merci pour le chocolat (composer: additional music - as Debussy)
 
2000 Claude Debussy - Piano Masterpieces (5) (video short) (music)
 
1999/II Pelléas et Mélisande (TV movie) (music by)
 
1999/I Pelléas et Mélisande (TV movie) (music by)
 
1992 Pelléas et Mélisande (TV movie) (music by)
 
1991 Nachtblau (short) (composer: stock music)
 
1987 Pelléas et Mélisande (TV movie) (music by)
 
1984 The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (TV movie) (music by)
 
1981 Brugge, die stille (composer: theme music)
 
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2010 Alison Balsom - Der Glanz der Trompete (TV documentary)
 

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