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Claude Debussy is a composer, pianist, music critic (Second French Empire).
Achille Claude Debussy (French pronunciation: [aʃil klod dəbysi]; 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural involvement, Debussy showed enough musical talent to be admitted at the age of ten to France's leading music college, the Conservatoire de Paris. He originally studied the piano, but found his vocation in innovative composition, despite the disapproval of the Conservatoire's conservative professors. He took many years to develop his mature style, and was nearly 40 when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed, Pelléas et Mélisande.
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| Born | 22 August 1862 |
| Profession | composer, pianist, music critic |
| Nationality | Second French Empire |
| Educated at | Conservatoire de Paris |
| Spouse | Emma Bardac, Marie-Rosalie Texier |
| Children | Claude-Emma Debussy |
| Awards | Knight of the Legion of Honour, Prix de Rome |
| Moon Sign (Rashi) | Gemini |
| Nakshatra | Punarvasu (Pada 3) |
| Sun Sign | Leo |
| Ascendant (Lagna) | Leo |
| Birth data reliability | Reference |
Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Computed with Swiss Ephemeris (Lahiri ayanamsa).
Our library holds 147 musicians with a computed Vedic chart from reliable birth data. 13 of them (9%) have the Moon in Gemini, like Claude Debussy, and 6 (4%) share the Punarvasu Nakshatra — the #6 most common Moon Nakshatra among musicians, where Anuradha leads with 10 (7%).
For scale, an even spread would put about 3.7% in each of the 27 Nakshatras and 8.3% in each Moon sign. These are simple counts from our dataset, not a prediction.
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Claude Debussy was born on 22 August 1862. Birth details come from a published reference (source: Internet) and have not been checked against a birth record, so the Moon sign is usually right but the Ascendant could differ.
Claude Debussy's Moon sign (Rashi) is Gemini and the Nakshatra is Punarvasu, pada 3, computed with Swiss Ephemeris using the Lahiri ayanamsa.
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