Debussy letters / selected and edited by Francois Lesure and Roger Nichols ; translated by Roger Nichols.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1987.Description: xxvi, 355 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674194292
Uniform titles:
  • Correspondence. English. Selections
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 20 780.92 DEB
LOC classification:
  • ML410.D28  A42 1987
Summary: "Modern music, Pierre Boulez has said, had its origin in Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun; it was Debussy 'who modified the taste of his age." Yet surprisingly little is known of the life and personality of this innovative and profoundly influential composer, although many of his works are staples of the operatic, orchestral, and recital repertoires - one thinks immediately of Pelléas and Mélisande, La Mer and the Nocturnes, the Preludes for Piano and Suite Bergamasque. Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive collection of his letters to friends and close associates such as the composers Stravinsky and Chausson, the conductor André Caplet, publisher Jacques Durand, novelist and poet Pierre Louÿs, and his lifelong friend Robert Godet. A brilliant stylist, Debussy is witty, caustic, and prodigal with splendid turns of phrase. These letters vividly sketch the excitements and frustrations the composer is experiencing in his work, the people and ideas that interest him, the music he hears and admires. Throughout, his correspondence has important things to say about central issues in art, literature, theater, and music in the period leading up to the First World War.: -- Book jacket
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Books Books Academy of Music & Performing Arts Library General Stacks Non-fiction 780.92 DEB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available A08079

Revised ed. of Lettres 1884-1918, with additional letters and translation.

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: p. 337.

"Modern music, Pierre Boulez has said, had its origin in Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun; it was Debussy 'who modified the taste of his age." Yet surprisingly little is known of the life and personality of this innovative and profoundly influential composer, although many of his works are staples of the operatic, orchestral, and recital repertoires - one thinks immediately of Pelléas and Mélisande, La Mer and the Nocturnes, the Preludes for Piano and Suite Bergamasque.
Here for the first time in English is a comprehensive collection of his letters to friends and close associates such as the composers Stravinsky and Chausson, the conductor André Caplet, publisher Jacques Durand, novelist and poet Pierre Louÿs, and his lifelong friend Robert Godet. A brilliant stylist, Debussy is witty, caustic, and prodigal with splendid turns of phrase. These letters vividly sketch the excitements and frustrations the composer is experiencing in his work, the people and ideas that interest him, the music he hears and admires. Throughout, his correspondence has important things to say about central issues in art, literature, theater, and music in the period leading up to the First World War.: -- Book jacket

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