By Brian Wise Claude Debussy, battling late-stage cancer and faced with the growing hardships of World War I, had only a few self-deprecating words about his swan song, the Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor. “I only wrote this sonata to be rid of the thing, spurred on by my dear publisher,” he … Continue reading A Look Back 100 Years Later on Debussy’s Violin Sonata—the Last Piece He Wrote Before His Death