Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy

 * ''This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests).

The result was:  by Ealdgyth - Talk 15:42, 25 July 2018 (UTC)



Born to a family of modest means, Claude Debussy was admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 before achieving international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande. Debussy developed his own style in the use of harmony and orchestral colouring. His works have strongly influenced a wide range of composers, including Béla Bartók, Olivier Messiaen, George Benjamin and the jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans.
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 * Main editors: User:Tim riley, User:Dmass, User:Smerus
 * Promoted: 9 July 2018
 * Reasons for nomination: Level 4 vital article, and exists on 87 languages of Wikipedia. It's the 100th anniversary of Claude's death this year. Unfortunately we missed his exact anniversary (25 March) but 22 August is the anniversary of his birth in 1862. The article has just been promoted to FA.
 * Support as nominator. Smerus (talk) 19:53, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Support --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:30, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Support as one of the main editors.  Tim riley  talk   20:34, 9 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Support as a contributing editor. Dmass (talk) 06:10, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Support of course. Double sharp (talk) 03:41, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes please Nice work. --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 11:34, 12 July 2018 (UTC)