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Author : Richard Langham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 23,7 MB
Release : 1997-04-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521460903
A collection of essays on Debussy exploring his working methods, visual tastes and his performance practice.
Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 49,72 MB
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 110856805X
Exploring the many dimensions of Debussy's historical significance, this volume provides new perspectives on the life and work of a much-loved composer and considers how social and political contexts shape the way we approach and perform his works today. In short, focused chapters building on recent research, contributors chart the influences, relationships and performances that shaped Debussy's creativity, and the ways he negotiated the complex social and professional networks of music, literature, art, and performance (on and off the stage) in Belle Époque Paris. It probes Debussy's relationship with some of the most influential '-isms' of his time, including his fascination with early music and with the 'exotic', and assesses his status as a pioneer of musical modernism and his continuing popularity with performers and listeners alike.
Author : Stephen Walsh
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 11,26 MB
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : 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 : Simon Trezise
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,80 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108458955
"Exploring the many dimensions of Debussy's historical significance, this volume charts the influences, relationships and performances that shaped his creativity in the complex world of Belle Époque Paris. Reflecting the latest research, chapters focus on key aspects of his career and the sources of his enduring popularity"--
Author : Kerry Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 1351574183
This collection of essays by scholars of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French music has been assembled in homage to the influential and inspirational French musicologist Fran‘s Lesure who died in 2001. Lesure's immense erudition was legendary and spanned music from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Two French composers who were particular foci in his scholarship were Berlioz and Debussy and this collection is based on scholarship around these two composers and the sources, contexts and legacies relating to their work.
Author : Paul Roberts
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574670689
Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time. He also draws on his own performing experience to touch on all the principal technical problems for a performer of Debussy's piano music. His many suggestions about interpreting the music will be particularly valuable to performers as well as listeners.
Author : Jane Fulcher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2001-08-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 1400831954
Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalized, politicized, and litigious. It was against this background of ferment and change--which characterized French society and music from the Franco-Prussian War to World War I--that Debussy re-thought music. This book captures the complexity of the composer's restless personal and artistic identity within the new picture emerging of the musical, social, and political world of fin-de-siècle Paris. Debussy's setting did not simply mold his style. Rather, it challenged him to define a style and then to revamp it again and again as he situated himself simultaneously via the present and the past. These essays trace Debussy's perpetual reinvention, both social and creative, from his earliest to his last works. They explore tensions and contradictions in his best-known compositions and examine lesser-known pieces that reveal new aspects of Debussy's creative appropriation from poetry, painting, and non-Western music. The contributors reveal the extent to which Debussy's personal and professional lives were intertwined and sometimes in conflict. Belonging to no one group or class, but crossing many, Debussy abjured the orthodox. A maverick who reviled all convention and searched for a music that authentically reflected experience, Debussy balked at entering any situation--salons, musical societies, or factions--that would categorize and thus distort him. Because of this, music lovers still argue over the degree to which Debussy's music is Impressionist, symbolist, or even French. Aptly, the volume's editor reads Debussy's last works as a dialogue with himself that reflects his inherently pluralistic, paradoxical, negotiated, and ever-changing identity. William Austin's description of Debussy as ''one of the most original and adventurous musicians who ever lived'' is often repeated. This book illustrates how right Austin was and shows why Debussy's unclassifiable art continues to fascinate and perplex his historians even as it enthralls new listeners. The contributors are Leon Botstein, Christophe Charle, John Clevenger, Jane F. Fulcher, David Grayson, Brian Hart, Gail Hilson-Woldu, and Marie Rolf.
Author : François De Médicis
Publisher :
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 12,40 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
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.
Author : François Lesure
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580469035
English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.
Author : Jane F. Fulcher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691090429
Claude Debussy's Paris was factionalised, politicised, and litigious. This text aims to capture the complexity of the composer's restless personal and artistic identity within the context of fin-de-siècle Paris.