A Portrait of Claude Debussy

A Portrait of Claude Debussy
Author: Marcel Dietschy
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1990
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

When this book was first published in French in 1962, it was hailed as an invaluable and reliable source of reference for many previously unpublished facts about the great composer. With painstaking attention to detail, Dietschy unearthed documents about every personality connected with Debussy, offering particularly novel information about Debussy's family and early life. Biographical rather than musicological, his deeply sensitive and sympathetic approach to Debussy's life and works yields many fresh insights into Debussy's complex personality. This first English translation incorporates Dietschy's later corrections as well as an updated bibliography and list of works.

Debussy

Debussy
Author: Stephen Walsh
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2018-10-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1524731935

One of the most revered composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy (1862–1918) achieved the unheard of: he reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. Debussy drove French music into entirely new regions of beauty and excitement at a time when old traditions threatened to stifle it. Yet despite his profound influence on French culture, Debussy’s own life was complicated and often troubled by struggles over money, women, and ill health. Here, Stephen Walsh, acclaimed author of Stravinsky, chronicles both the composer himself and the unique moment in European history that bore him. Walsh’s engagingly original approach is to enrich a lively biography with analyses of Debussy’s music: from his first daring breaks with the rules as a Conservatoire student to his achievements as the greatest French composer of his time.

The Piano Works of Claude Debussy

The Piano Works of Claude Debussy
Author: E. Robert Schmitz
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486172759

Part biography, part criticism, and part analysis, this fascinating study of one of music's greatest geniuses is above all an authoritative commentary on the entire corpus of Debussy's work for solo piano. Includes 21 illustrations.

Claude Debussy

Claude Debussy
Author: François Lesure
Publisher: Eastman Studies in Music
Total Pages: 546
Release: 2019
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1580469035

English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.

Claude Debussy. [with A Portrait And Musical Notes.]

Claude Debussy. [with A Portrait And Musical Notes.]
Author: Laloy Louis
Publisher: Sagwan Press
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2018-02-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781377104799

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Debussy's Paris

Debussy's Paris
Author: Catherine Kautsky
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2017-09-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1442269839

Debussy’s Paris takes readers on a tour of Belle Époque Paris through detailed descriptions of the city’s delights and the exquisite piano music Debussy wrote to accompany them. Kautsky reveals little known aspects of Parisian life and weaves the music, the man, the city, and the era into an indissoluble whole.

Images (Books 1 and 2)

Images (Books 1 and 2)
Author: Urtext Piano Reprint
Publisher:
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2020-09-09
Genre:
ISBN:

Claude Debussy's Complete Images (Books 1 and 2), Urtext Edition. Reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material.

Images

Images
Author: Paul Roberts
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2001
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1574670689

Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time. He also draws on his own performing experience to touch on all the principal technical problems for a performer of Debussy's piano music. His many suggestions about interpreting the music will be particularly valuable to performers as well as listeners.