Who is the author of "Moonlight Song"? Can you give me detailed information?

The author of "Moonlight" is Achille-Claude Debussy.

Debussy entered the Paris Conservatoire to study piano in 1873, when he was only eleven years old. Later, he studied harmony and composition at this academy with Durang and Gilot.

In 1889, Debussy visited the "Universal Exhibition" in Paris. Some Eastern countries' exhibition halls here played Eastern music. Debussy discovered novelly that the tunes, harmonies, and Modes, etc., were completely different from what he learned in the academy, which aroused his strong interest and conducted some research on Eastern music.

After that, he often used Eastern pentatonic scales and some new techniques different from traditional Western compositions in his compositions, such as dissonant chords, the use of parallel fifths, etc. Later, he came into contact with Impressionist poets and painters strongly agreed with their ideas. In his long-term creative practice, Debussy established a new musical style-Impressionist style;

Before Debussy, although music There are also various schools, but they are all centered on melody, which dominates the music; while Impressionism pays more attention to the changes in musical colors and the impressions they reflect in people's minds. Everything else such as melody, harmony, mode, key, rhythm, etc. are all means of creating color.

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Appreciation of the work

1. The composer did not write this piece as a piano piece. It turned out to be the third section of the "Bergamo Suite", which was written at the beginning of the last century and consists of four pieces.

2. The composer was influenced by the poet Giraud's narrative poem "Lunar Vierro" when writing this work. This narrative poem is about: In Bergamo, Italy, there was a young man named Biero who was intoxicated under the moonlight, which symbolized ideals. He was killed by the moonlight because he was addicted to material life. Finally, because he realized his mistake, he was forgiven by the moonlight and returned to the world.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Moonlight Song