The French composer Claude Debussy was born in the northwestern suburbs of Paris. The oldest of five children, his father was a china shop salesman.
Although his sizable family was short on cash, Debussy landed a spot at the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10. where he studied piano under Antoine Francois Marmontel. Within three years he was playing Chopin piano concertos.
Debussy's 1879 Conservatoire report described him as: "A pupil with a considerable gift for harmony but desperately careless."
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