Maria Luisa Cantos – piano at Solstice

Antoine Marmontel had been professor of piano at the Paris Conservatory since 1846 when, in 1872, a new student, aged only 10, entered his class. The boy’s name was Claude Debussy, and his relations with one of the founding fathers of the French piano school would not, as we know, always be simple …

Alain COCHARD translated by J.T. Tuttle