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In 1894 he composed the orchestral tone poem, Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Starting from the year 1907 Debussy started to travel to England, Belgium, Holland, Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Russia to play the piano and conduct all of his works. His last work, the Violin Sonata, was performed in May 1917 with Debussy at the piano...
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His last work, the Violin Sonata, was performed in May 1917 with Debussy at the piano. It was the last music that he played in public, at St. Jean-de-Luz in September. Debussy died of rectal cancer on 25 March 1918. Igor Stravinsky is also considered one of the major influences in the twentieth century...
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