This site introduces the Impressionistic movement in art and offers bios on the chief innovators and many fine images of their artwork. (
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/glo/impressionism/
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This colorful and easy to use site offers many galleries of artwork, biographies of the leading impressionist artists and quotations from them as well for your study. (
http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~malek/Impression/index.html
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This site features an essay that discusses the composer Claude Debussy as he relates to the greater movement of impressionism. (
http://www.tcd.ie/Music/JF%20History/debussy.html
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This site offers a biography on Debussy with sounds files of several of his works. (What the site identifies as "The Snow Is Dancing," from the Children's Corner suite, is actually "Serenade for the Doll." (
http://www.carolinaclassical.com/articles/debussy.html
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This BBC site includes an in-depth biography of Debussy along with a discography, sound files, and links to radio programs on his music. (
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/profiles/debussy.shtml
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This site delves into the personality of this impressionistic composer and also offers biographical information, photos of his homes, lists and descriptions of his compositions, even a fair amount about his love life! (
http://www.maurice-ravel.net/
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This Kennedy Center site features a biography of Maurice Ravel along with video presentations on several of his works. (
http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entity...
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This attractive site offers background information on the symbolist movement along with examples of art and poetry and biographies of principal innovators. (
http://gallery.sjsu.edu/paris/symbolism/introduction.html
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