Claude Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’ Featured on Google Doodle (+Video)

Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” is being featured on Google Doodle on Thursday to note the 151st anniversary of his birth.
Claude Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune’ Featured on Google Doodle (+Video)
Google Doodle featured Claude Debussy's 'Clair de Lune' for the composers birthday. (Screenshot/Google)
Jack Phillips
8/22/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” is being featured on Google Doodle on Thursday to note the 151st anniversary of his birth.

The doodle includes a moonlit scene in Paris that goes along to the composition, which is known as one of Debussy’s most famous. “Clair de Lune” is French for “moonlight.”

The doodle appears on Google’s homepage.

Debussy was born Aug. 22, 1862, and is considered one of the most prominent composers of the 19th century and one of the most influential Impressionist composers.

He died of cancer at age 55 in 1918.

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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