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Debussy: a Painter in Sound

By Stephen Walsh

Book information

Publisher
Knopf
Year
2018
ISBN
0525432639, 978-0525432630
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2729472 bytes)
Pages
345\0
Topic
Art Music
Time added
2019-08-20 21:25:01
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Description

Claude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he manage this? Was it through the association of his music with visual images, or was it simply that, by throwing out the rule book of the Paris Conservatoire where he studied, his music put beauty of sound above the spiritual ambitions of the German tradition from which those rules derived. Stephen Walsh's thought-provoking biography, told partly through the events of Debussy's life, and partly through a critical discussion of his music, addresses these and other questions about one of the most influential composers of the early twentieth century.

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