Debussy : a painter in sound
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
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Book
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English

Notes

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"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-311) and index.
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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