'Debussy's Nouveau Damozel'
'Debussy's Nouveau Damozel'

Title page and Introduction to
‘Debussy’s Nouveau Damozel’
~ an article I wrote exploring
Claude Debussy’s sublime 1888
cantata ‘La Damoiselle Élue’.

(left) Title page featuring the
original illustration for the
published score’s frontispiece
by French symbolist artist
Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

(right) My own ink portrait of
Claude Debussy richly festooned
with an Art Nouveau border
design by William Morris.

© Neale Osborne, December 2025

'Debussy's Nouveau Damozel'

Title page and Introduction to
‘Debussy’s Nouveau Damozel’
~ an article I wrote exploring
Claude Debussy’s sublime 1888
cantata ‘La Damoiselle Élue’.

(left) Title page featuring the
original illustration for the
published score’s frontispiece
by French symbolist artist
Maurice Denis (1870-1943)

(right) My own ink portrait of
Claude Debussy richly festooned
with an Art Nouveau border
design by William Morris.

© Neale Osborne, December 2025