Claude Debussy. 20th Century Composers
Author | : Paul Roberts |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An intimate biography of this innovative and troubled composer.
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Author | : Paul Roberts |
Publisher | : Phaidon Press Limited |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008-04-23 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An intimate biography of this innovative and troubled composer.
Author | : Claude Debussy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Collects the essays and reviews of the great French composer, together with interviews with him, in which he comments on the composers and musical events of his day and on his own philosophy of music.
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.
Author | : Claude Debussy |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2013-01-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 048631216X |
These 24 works reveal Debussy's genius: "La Cathedrale engloutie," "Ondine," "La fille aux cheveux de lin," "Feuilles mortes," "Ce qu'a vu le Vent d'Ouest," many more. Glossary of French terms.
Author | : Eric Frederick Jensen |
Publisher | : Master Musicians |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199730059 |
Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its appeal. In this authoritative biography, author Eric Frederick Jensen brings together the most recent biographical research, including a revised catalogue of Debussy's compositions and the first complete edition of his correspondence. With separate, chronological sections on his life and music, Debussy is accessible to the general reader who wishes to focus on his life and personality, while providing detailed discussion of the music to musicians and students.
Author | : Claude Debussy |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2013-04-19 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0486311546 |
Beginning with Deux Arabesques (1888), this excellent collection also includes Suite bergamasque (1890-1905), Masques (1904), the first series of Images, and 12 others, all in corrected editions.
Author | : Gillian Opstad |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 403 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1783276584 |
Emma Bardac and her relationship with Claude Debussy take centre stage in this insightful exploration of their lives together. The singer Emma Bardac (1862-1934) has often been presented as a woman who ensnared Claude Debussy (1862-1918) because she wanted to be associated with his fame and to live a life of luxury. Indeed, in many biographies and composer-related studies of Debussy, the only mentions that she receives are brief and derogatory. Here Emma Bardac and her relationship with the composer take centre stage. The book traces Emma's Jewish ancestry and her background, the significant role of her wealthy uncle Osiris, her marriage at seventeen to the wealthy Jewish banker Sigismond Bardac, her affair with Gabriel Fauré and her liaison with and subsequent marriage to Debussy. As Gillian Opstad shows, the pressure and stifling effects of domestic life on Debussy's attitude to his composing were considerable. The financial consequences of their partnership were disastrous, and their circle of close friends was small. Emma suffered physically and mentally from the tensions of the marriage, particularly money worries, and the possibility that Debussy was attracted to her older daughter. She considered divorce but supported him through his deepest depression and during the First World War until he succumbed to cancer in 1918. After Debussy's death, Emma felt driven both on his behalf and for financial reasons to further performances of the composer's works and provoked the annoyance of other musicians by having early compositions resurrected, completed and performed. In this engagingly written biography, Gillian Opstad brings to light little-known facts about Emma's background and family, advances new insights into her relationship with Debussy, and provides a glimpse of an early twentieth-century Parisian milieu that experienced wide-spread antisemitism.
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.
Author | : François De Médicis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1580465250 |
Some of Debussy's most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds.