F2B. The Chamber Music of Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Art, Music & Theater | Registration opens 2/25/2026 9:00 AM
This will be the last of a series of courses on the music and milieu of Claude Debussy. Chamber music played a distinctive role in Debussy's artistic production, being essentially reserved to his early maturity and the end of his creative life. The course will cover all of the composer's major chamber works, beginning with the remarkable String Quartet and ending with the three final sonatas (of a planned but never completed set of six) at the very end of his life. Several of the works will be performed live in class.
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Raymond Erickson
Presenter
Raymond Erickson, PhD, has given previous LLI courses dealing with both Bach and Debussy. He is professor emeritus of music at Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and has also taught at Rutgers University and The Juilliard School. He earned his PhD in the history of music at Yale University and is a widely traveled keyboard performer. He is on the Bard College Conservatory of Music faculty in chamber music, harpsichord, and piano.