jan 1, 1902 - Pelléas et Mélisande

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an opera in five acts with music by Claude Debussy.

Pelléas et Mélisande
1. Symbolism was a main factor in several of Debussy’s most important pieces.
2. His first famous work, Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune, was based on a poem by Mallarmé.
3. His only opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, was based on a drama by Maeterlinck, the leader
of the Symbolist movement after Mallarmé.
4. Debussy threw out Wagner’s harmonic glue, allowing more options for harmonic movement.

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