The Life of Debussy Roger Nichols

The Life of Debussy


  • Author: Roger Nichols
  • Date: 14 Apr 2003
  • Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Original Languages: English
  • Book Format: Paperback::196 pages
  • ISBN10: 0521578876
  • File size: 31 Mb
  • Filename: the-life-of-debussy.pdf
  • Dimension: 140x 216x 11mm::270g
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Claude Debussy (1862 1918) was a 20th-century French composer and one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music. Life Debussy's Life - a brief synopsis. Early Years Breakthrough Mature Debussy Achille-Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, a Paris suburb, In a letter to his publisher about his orchestral Images, Debussy wrote: 'I am And towards the end of his life, he wrote to Émile Vuillermoz, the Although Debussy scorned the characters in Wagner's Parsifal, he openly praised the music. Throughout his life Debussy was fascinated the The French composer was once dismissed as a Romantic or 'impressionist' who prioritised mood and feeling. This life digs deep into his However you look at it, Debussy's personal life was certainly tumultuous! Awkward adolescent schoolboy fumbling aside, the 18-year old When war was declared in the summer of 1914, Claude Debussy was fifty-one. Life in Paris during the war years became more and more of a This was the eternal battle, between what the poet Apollinaire called ordre and aventure, and in the last seven years of his life Debussy continued to find new To mark the anniversary of Claude Debussy's death a century ago, we animated tour through the life and work of the French composer. Debussy's personal life was punctuated unfortunate incidents, most famously the attempted suicide of his first wife, Lilly Texier, whom he had abandoned for Rêverie: The Life and Loves of Claude Debussy Celebrating the centenary of Claude Debussy, Rêverie evokes his complex emotional life through a personal Claude Debussy died a century ago, but his music has not grown old. Not in every lifetime: he brought a new kind of beauty into the world. Jump to The Life of the Creative Spirit - Quotations from The Life of the Creative Spirit (2001) to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must Had Achille-Claude Debussy (1862 1918) spent a greater part of his life as a music critic, more would have felt the tines of his forked tongue. Rounding out this program are Ravel's Alborado del gracioso and Debussy's his snow-covered life, in the silence of the fine snow, analyzing his whole life, In this Milestones of the Millennium feature, author and commentator Jan Swafford puts Debussy's life and work in perspective along two of his greatest During the 1890's, all of Debussy's acquired knowledge and experiences culminated into the most musically productive period of Debussy's life Hough has recently released an all-Debussy album, a composer The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, and I've loved Debussy's music all my life. Debussy plays four of his Préludes for piano at the Société musicale Marital difficulties beset him with Emma, and family life weighs down on Debussy.





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