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853678
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Lesure, François
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Claude Debussy : : a critical biography /\ François Lesure ; English translation and revised edition by Marie Rolf.
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| Publication Statement
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Rochester, NY, USA :: University of Rochester Press,, 2019.
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, ©2019
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| Series Statement
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Eastman studies in music ;; v. 159
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1 online resource (xvi, 525 pages) :: 1 illustration.
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1787444511
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: 9781787444515
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1580469035
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9781580469036
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| Notes
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"Original French-language edition: Claude Debussy: Biographie critique by Francois Lesure" by Librairie Artheme Fayarad 2003.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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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 Mallarmé: 1890-91 -- Esotericism and Symbolism: 1892 -- The Chausson year: 1893 -- A "fairy tale" gone awry: 1894 -- Pierre Louÿs; the lean years: 1895-96 -- Pelléas -the long wait: 1895-98 -- From bachelorhood to marriage: 1897-99 -- Nocturnes: 1900-1901 -- The composer as critic: 1901-3 -- Pelléas et Mélisande: 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 Préludes: 1910 -- Le martyre de saint Sébastien: 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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| Abstract
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English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy
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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 extensively on Debussy's complete correspondence (at that time unpublished), a painstaking tracking of contemporary reviews and comments in the press, and an examination of other primary documents-including private diaries-that had not been available to previous biographers. As such, Lesure's book presents a wealth of new information while debunking a number of myths that had developed over the years since the composer's death in 1918. The present English translation and revised edition, by Debussy authority Marie Rolf, augments Lesure's numerous notes with several thousand new ones by Rolf, providing more precise information on crucial and sometimes contentious points. It also reflects Debussy scholarship that has appeared since 2003, updating Lesure's seminal work. Rolf's translation-the first ever-will make Lesure's findings accessible to scholars, musicians, and music lovers in English-speaking lands and around the world. FRANÇOIS LESURE (1923-2001) was the director of the music division of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, professor of musicology at the Université libre de Bruxelles, and chair of musicology at the École pratique des Hautes Études. MARIE ROLF is senior associate dean of graduate studies and professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music and a member of the editorial board for the Ouvres complètes de Claude Debussy
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Debussy, Claude,1862-1918.
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Debussy, Claude,1862-1918
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Composers-- France, Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Composers Musicians.
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Composers.
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MUSIC-- Genres Styles-- Classical.
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MUSIC-- Individual Composer Musician.
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MUSIC-- Reference.
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France.
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| Dewey Classification
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780.92
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| LC Classification
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ML410.D28L4313 2019
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