Ges-amtkunstwerk, the “total art work”. In the
Gesamtkunstwerk

Schoenberg, no Richard Strauss, no Gustav Mahler – not, anyway, as we know them. Debussy, for all his railings against Wagner, took on the German composer’s idea of opera as an integrated art form and a window onto the innermost psyche in Pelléas et Mélisande.

posthumously