The following album presents twelve original solo guitar arrangements of some of the most renowned compositions by the French composer Claude Debussy. I have chosen eleven piano pieces and a solo flute piece for this book, in which we can appreciate the evolution of the composer through the different periods of his life. Born to a family of modest

The following album presents twelve original solo guitar arrangements of some of the most renowned compositions by the French composer Claude Debussy. I have chosen eleven piano pieces and a solo flute piece for this book, in which we can appreciate the evolution of the composer through the different periods of his life. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, (Achille) Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) remains as one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Bela Bartók first encountered Debussy's music in 1907 and later said that "Debussy's great service to music was to reawaken among all musicians an awareness of harmony and its possibilities". Messiaen was given a score of Pelléas et Mélisande as a boy and said that it was "a revelation, love at first sight" and "probably the most decisive influence I have been subject to". Boulez also discovered Debussy's music at a young age and said that it gave him his first sense of what modernity in music could mean. The pianist Stephen Hough believes that Debussy's influence also extends to jazz and suggests that Reflets dans l'eau can be heard in the harmonies of Bill Evans. Debussy accomplished something that happens very rarely, and not in every lifetime: he brought a new kind of beauty into the world. Debussy engineered a velvet revolution, overturning the extant order without upheaval. His influence proved to be vast, not only for successive waves of twentieth-century modernists but also in jazz, in popular song, and in Hollywood.