Claude Debussy is the celebrated French composer whose impressionist soundscapes helped redefine early 20th-century orchestration. The name itself is French and readers typically refer to the composer as C-l-aude Debussy; the surname is often pronounced with silent or soft final consonants in English contexts, but in French the ending -y is approximated as ee. The combined name is commonly treated as a proper noun with firm stress on Debussy.
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