Debussy And His World


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Debussy And His World


Debussy And His World
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Author : Jane Fulcher
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2001-08-06

Debussy And His World written by Jane Fulcher and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08-06 with Music categories.


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.



Claude Debussy His Life And Works


Claude Debussy His Life And Works
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Author : Léon Vallas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

Claude Debussy His Life And Works written by Léon Vallas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Composers categories.




Debussy


Debussy
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Author : Stephen Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2018-02-27

Debussy written by Stephen Walsh and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Debussy's life is of extraordinary interest because, like Wagner and Stravinsky, he crossed artistic boundaries, associating as much with poets and artists as with musicians. His father was active in the 1871 Paris Commune and the composer's childhood was thus unsettled, his musical preparation erratic, and his subsequent lifestyle somewhat bohemian by the bourgeois norms of the French musical establishment. He never went to a proper school, but was enough of a pianist to enter the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 10. Whilst still a student he rebelled against the academy-taught "rules of composition" and constructed a language of his own, in constant rebellion against the heavy Wagnerian influence prevalent at that time.In the early 1900s he worked in Paris as a music critic. His own music during these years includes some of the greatest and most influential works of the early twentieth century: the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, his orchestral masterpieces La Mer and Images, a series of profoundly original piano works (including two books of Préludes), and the ballet Jeux, premiered in Diaghilev's 1913 season just before Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (which Debussy attended). His later years were plagued by the rectal cancer that eventually killed him in 1918. But he continued to compose until 1917This was a period of political and cultural turmoil in French life, the Franco-Prussian war and its aftermath, the Dreyfus affair with its religious and military undercurrents, the general instability of the Third Republic, and the First World War. Stephen Walsh's study combines chronological biography with a contextualised picture placing Debussy in the broad artistic and social environment of turn-of-the-century France, making this a significant contribution to the cultural history of the time.



Claude Debussy


Claude Debussy
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Author : Wendy Thompson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-03-01

Claude Debussy written by Wendy Thompson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Claude Debussy revitalized French music with his uniquely subtle art, opening up a new sound-world for the 20th century. While the politicians played their deadly power games, priming the war machine that was to shatter European civilization in 1914, the arts in late 19th-century Paris flourished. Writers, poets, and artists -- among them Zola, Mallarme, and Renoir -- felt free to be original and creative, and Debussy's music found its voice. This lavishly illustrated biography in the Composer's World series traces Debussy's life -- against the fashionable background of turn-of-the-century Paris. Included, in simple keyboard arrangements, are extracts from some of Debussy's most sensuous music. Beautifully designed!



Claude Debussy


Claude Debussy
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Author : Maurice Dumesnil
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10

Claude Debussy written by Maurice Dumesnil and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10 with categories.


This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.



The Composer As Intellectual


The Composer As Intellectual
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Author : Jane F. Fulcher
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2005-08-25

The Composer As Intellectual written by Jane F. Fulcher and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-25 with History categories.


Their consciousness raised by the First World War and the xenophobic nationalism of official culture, some joined parties or movements, allying themselves with and propagating different sets of cultural and political-social goals."--Jacket.



The Life Of Debussy


The Life Of Debussy
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Author : Roger Nichols
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1998-04-28

The Life Of Debussy written by Roger Nichols and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-04-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


'That great blue Sphinx', Debussy called the sea. Debussy himself was something of a Sphinx: in the early 1890s he was thinking of 'founding a society for musical esotericism', and although, on the surface, most of his music is instantly engaging and accessible, at a deeper level run currents that are dangerous, unpredictable, destructive. In this new biography, Roger Nichols considers the life and music of this seminal figure charting the currents and the whirlpools in which other humans were sometimes unlucky enough to get caught. Debussy's status is such that no modern composer has been able to ignore him, asking, as he does, any number of riddles to which late twentieth-century music is still searching answers.



Debussy A Study In Modern Music 1908


Debussy A Study In Modern Music 1908
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Author : William H. Daly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-06-01

Debussy A Study In Modern Music 1908 written by William H. Daly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-01 with categories.


This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.



Debussy S Paris


Debussy S Paris
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Author : Catherine Kautsky
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-09-15

Debussy S Paris written by Catherine Kautsky and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-15 with Music categories.


Debussy’s Paris takes readers on a tour of Belle Époque Paris through detailed descriptions of the city’s delights and the exquisite piano music Debussy wrote to accompany them. Kautsky reveals little known aspects of Parisian life and weaves the music, the man, the city, and the era into an indissoluble whole.



Claude Debussy


Claude Debussy
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Author : François Lesure
language : en
Publisher: Eastman Studies in Music
Release Date : 2019

Claude Debussy written by François Lesure and has been published by Eastman Studies in Music this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.