Impressionism was the revolutionary art movement that shifted our relationship with painted images. However, we are mostly ...

What we now call impressionist music is a style introduced in late 19th Century France. It was a move away from the long, dramatic and emotional works of romanticism. Instead, the focus was on ...

On last Sunday's Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Classical Music, Catherine Bott asks 'What is impressionism in music?' Here's the remarkable story of the neglected, and possibly first, ...

Debussy didn't like the term impressionism to describe his music. He said, “There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.” Ground-breaking art often creates a stir at fir ...

Perhaps the music itself is to blame (as we said ... Most of the songs would be unfamiliar except to those who are partial to the French Impressionist movement, with only Claude Debussy’s “Réverie” ...

Its origins are complex and fascinating, combining influences from poetry, the music of the Baroque period (from around 1600 to 1750), and Impressionism, a style in music following on from that in ...

Why Impressionism is interesting and worth your attention and admiration. Impressionism is one of the best known and loved movements in Art History, but why? We present a case for why ...