image sourceClaude Debussy’s works were composed in the era of Art Nouveau — a term applied to the commercial art that was a protest against the industrialization of the early 1870s and against the still very ugly machines; it was a time when people were nostalgically remembering workmanship, artistic skill and craftsmanship.
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