Claude Debussy : A Critical Biography /

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François Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well as of the artistic milieu in which he worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensi...

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Main Author: Lesure, François (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Rochester, NY, USA : University of Rochester Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Debussy, Claude, > 1862-1918
Debussy, Claude, > 1862-1918.
Composers.
MUSIC > Individual Composer & Musician.
MUSIC > Reference.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Classical.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Composers & Musicians.
Compositeurs > France > Biographies.
Composers > France > Biography.
France.
Biographies.
Biography
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • An unsettled childhood: 1862-72
  • Failure of a pianist: 1872-79
  • Birth of a composer: 1880-82
  • The path to the Prix de Rome: 1882-84
  • The Villa Medici: 1885-87
  • Beginning of the Bohemian period: 1887-89
  • From Baudelaire to Mallarme: 1890-91
  • Esotericism and Symbolism: 1892
  • The Chausson year: 1893
  • A "fairy tale" gone awry: 1894
  • Pierre Louÿs; the lean years: 1895-96
  • Pelleas -the long wait: 1895-98
  • From bachelorhood to marriage: 1897-99
  • Nocturnes: 1900-1901
  • The composer as critic: 1901-3
  • Pelleas et Melisande: 1902
  • From the fêtes galantes to La mer: 1903
  • Debussyism; a new life: 1904
  • La mer: 1905
  • Projects and skirmishes: 1906-7
  • Orchestra conductor: 1908
  • "The procrastination syndrome": 1909
  • Orchestral Images and piano Preludes: 1910
  • Le martyre de saint Sebastien: 1911
  • The year of the ballets: 1912
  • Jeux; travel to Russia: 1913
  • The final trips: 1914
  • The war; Pourville: 1914-15
  • "The factories of nothingness": 1916-18

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