Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was known for his lyrical work “Moonlight”, “Prelude to the Afternoon of the wildlife”, and “Sea”, the Eastern style of Zaponism.
He is a French-born composer.
He is an innovative musician who uses Russian and Eastern music with freedom that is not bound by form and pursues his own music.
He is musically highly regarded, but later on, he is known as a mean man who is considered as a mean playboy in relationships.
Debussy was not good-looking, but he had a strange charm due to his noble appearance. For this reason, there were always many women around Debussy.<<<
In the first episode, Debussy left Marie Basnier behind and formed a romantic relationship with a young Gyabi Dupont in his early 20s. However, Gyabi experiences a disturbance when he attempts suicide due to his love interest in women.
While the relationship between the two has become estranged, a woman comes deep into Debussy’s heart.
Debussy leaves her in subsonic and officially breaks up with Gyabi (Gabriel Dupont) in 1899.
However, Debussy’s heart is filled with anxiety.
In my experience so far, no woman has rejected me, but she does not fall over easily.
Even though it’s already after officially breaking up with Gabriel.
He would do the same, because she was friends with Gabriel Dupont, who had previously lived with Debussy for 10 years, and she was well aware of what a terrible man Debussy was.
Her name was Marie Rosalie Texier (Lily).
1. Debussy’s meeting with Gabriel Dupont’s friend Lily Texier
Marie-Rosalie Texier, also known as Lily, was a boutique clerk ten years younger than Debussy and first met in the spring of 1899.
Their meeting was met through Debussy’s lover, Gyabi Dupont, who is said to have looked brilliantly beautiful to Debussy’s eyes.
Later, Debussy expressed her encounter with Lily as follows: “She was incredibly clean and pretty. She was like an old legend.”
Debussy spent three months courting her enthusiastically, using the expression ‘If I don’t see you anymore, I’ll die.’ But Lily didn’t give Debussy her heart.
Lily could not believe Debussy because she was well aware of his natural flirtation with Gyabi.
Debussy began to increasingly fret at Lily, who remained motionless despite her extreme courtship.
Then he changed his strategy. He began to appeal to Lily’s feelings.
“I’m worried about my future that I’ll be living alone like this.”
“Now I need a stable life!” “So far I haven’t met a woman I truly love and trust, but you’re the one I’ve been looking for” and so on,
He begins to send a letter to Lily about his mournful love.
Lily-Texier was burdened by this unbearable young man, but she succumbs to the threat of suicide if she doesn’t marry her.
Eventually in 1899, he accepted the proposal and married on October 19.<<<
Lily devotedly supported and supported Debussy. Having seen Debussy’s flirtations, he was happy for three years while carefully and jealous of his private life and being content to live in his shadow.
By all accounts, Lily was a sweet and honest woman, practical and sure enough to maintain a good relationship, well received by Debussy’s friends and colleagues.
Meanwhile, Debussy succeeded in the orchestral piece “Prelude to the afternoon of a wildlife” and released the opera “Peleas and Melisand” one after another, achieving its peak fame.
Debussy, who has taken on popularity and fame, is not satisfied with Lily, who is feeling happy in his shadow over time.
And by 1903, Lily was unable to have a child, and when she reached the age of 30, her voice and laughter began to sharpen, her jaw fat developed, and she began to complain about Lily, saying she was gradually becoming like a female deer.
And crucially, she is dissatisfied with Lily’s intellectual limitations. However, isn’t Lily’s life process different from the boutique clerk and the musician herself.
This is only an excuse given Debussy’s past flirtations. Another woman caught my eye.
2. Lily’s gun-suicide ruckus and a meeting with married woman Emma
On 1 October 1903, he first met Emma Bardac, the wife of Sigismond Bardac, a banker.
Mrs. Bardak, Debussy’s ideal type with both intelligence and emotion, was a sophisticated manner and culture, and was also a high-quality vocalist.
In 1904, he and his wife went on a honeymoon with Lily Texier on the island of Jersey in northwestern France.
After traveling with Mrs. Bardak, Texier, who was at her parents’ home, is notified of the divorce by letter.
He threatened Lily with suicide if she didn’t marry him, but he betrayed her in just five years.
Lily had already threatened several times to kill herself with a pistol at Debussy, who was cheating, but could not stop his natural flirtation.
And on November 14, 1904, five days before her wedding anniversary, Lily committed suicide with a pistol at Concorde Square in Paris.
The bullet was stuck in Lily’s chest, but fortunately, her life was saved.
She attempted to take revenge by suicide on her husband, who had betrayed her. The media was surrounded by this spectacular scandal, which caused a stir in French society. Debussy was already a famous musician.
The bullet is embedded in Lily’s vertebrae. The bullet remains with Lily forever as a sign of her love for Debussy and died in 1932.
In the spring of 1905, they fled to England to settle their divorce, causing a handgun disturbance with Lily.
Emma divorced on May 4, and Debussy divorced Lily on August 2.
Emma Bardack was already pregnant and Debussy’s daughter, Chouchou, was born in 1905.
Lily Texier, like Dupont, loved and hated Debussy enough to choose death.
Debussy’s behavior in the process of breaking up with her friend, Gyabi Dupont, was identical, and she left a sign of Debussy’s love on her vertebrae.
Debussy’s love behavior, whether he knows it or not, is a point of entry. Debussy’s nature does not stop there.
In the next episode, we will learn about Debussy’s last love story and his representative work, The Sea.
