Claude Debussy (1862–1918) was a leading French composer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, known for his "impressionist style," though he himself was not always happy with the term. His music marked a significant break from the nineteenth-century Romantic tradition, embracing new sound worlds and rejecting Germanic Romanticism. Estampes, a set of three piano pieces composed in 1903, was a key work in which Debussy began to explore the main elements of his new style. 'La soirée dans Grenade' ('An Evening in Granada') reflects his fascination with the exoticism of Spanish culture, despite a very brief visit to Spain