Claude Debussy Trivia Questions

Maurice Maeterlinck's symbolist play inspired Debussy's only completed opera. Debussy's casting of Mary Garden over Maeterlinck's partner Georgette Leblanc caused a lasting rift.

He won the Prix de Rome in 1884, which funded a residency at the Villa Medici, though he found the experience stifling and left early.

'The Snow Is Dancing' is a movement from 'Children's Corner', but it depicts a child's playful view of snow, not a real blizzard.

Debussy's only daughter was named Claude-Emma, not Mélisande. He called her 'Chou-Chou', but the name was not taken from his opera.

Debussy and Monet were never close friends and did not collaborate on a ballet. The only ballet Debussy composed, 'Jeux,' was for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with choreographer Nijinsky.

The third movement of 'Suite bergamasque' was first called 'Promenade sentimentale' before Debussy changed it to 'Clair de Lune' in 1905.

Debussy died in 1918, before the theremin was invented in 1920. He never wrote for electronic instruments.

This is a myth. Debussy was notoriously reclusive but never resorted to cross-dressing to hear his works performed.