A seasoned business leader and managing partner of real estate firms, Richard Rinaolo has served as managing partner at Phoenix Venture Capital for over seven years. Outside of his professional pursuits, Richard Rinaolo enjoys listening to classical music, such as Sergei Rachmaninoff and Claude Debussy compositions. Born in 1862, Claude Debussy was one the most influential composers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With early influences such as Far Eastern and Russian music, Debussy is often seen as an impressionist composer, a term that he rejected throughout his life. Impressionism was first seen as a late 19th-century art movement, with the term coined after “Impression, Sunrise,” a painting by Claude Monet. In music, composers were named impressionists as an analogy to impressionist painters. Similar to the movement in paintings, impressionist music explores mood and atmosphere. While the first use light, contrasting colors, and blurry background and foreground, composers apply harmonics, orchestration, texture, and other musical features, such as ambiguous tonality and parallel motion. Debussy has been considered impressionist since his 1894 symphonic poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun. Besides multiple motifs, he used chromatic scales along with unusual timbres and whole-tone scales. These features set him apart from other music at the time.