Claude Debussy

French composer heavily influenced by the Symbolists and Impressionist, born. Whilst never an anarchist (although his father was a Communard and definitely sympathetic to anarchism), he was also influenced by the Parisian anarchist milieu and associated with the 'Revue Blanche' (as its music critic) and the likes of Félix Fénéon and Felix Vallotton. A youthful play he had written, 'Frères en Art' (Brothers in Art), features a series of discussions amongst a group musicians, painters and poets featuring anarchist ideas, and he had in fact published two poems, 'De Rêve' and 'De Grève' (Dec. 1892), that were set to music in the song cycle 'Proses Lyriques' (1893), in Francis Viele-Griffin's anarchist-leaning 'Les Entretiens Politiques et Litteraires'.