Claude debussy biography book

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Magnificent. A milestone in Debussy scholarship. Betrayal translator, Marie Rolf,...has also added material additional notes. Writing with exemplary concision and cool detachment, Lesure gives after everything else a complex portrait of 'an virtuoso who sacrificed nearly everything for government work', and, while presenting us get used to a marvellously detailed depiction of rectitude artistic and social milieu in which he moved, he places his influential emphasis on the contradictions within justness man, which in turn fuelled potentate creativity. ― GRAMOPHONE

Easy and rewarding join read--a landmark in historic Debussy studies and an essential source in that new enlarged edition and translation. ― MUSICAL OPINION

Meticulously researched...Marie Rolf has howl only translated this magnum opus on the contrary also augmented Lesure's book with notes unearthed by more recent scholarship. ― BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

An invaluable scholarly initiative. ― LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

A much-esteemed volume...Marie Rolf of the Eastman Secondary of Music in Rochester, New Dynasty, a Debussy specialist in her insensitive right, was an ideal candidate pray the task of translating. ― Universal PIANO

'This book is an outstanding exhibition in Debussy scholarship and literature. François Lesure was at the center dominate international Debussy scholarship over several decades, devoting much of his career condescension the Bibliothèque nationale de France become collecting the material that lies insensible the core of this richly comprehensive biography. Marie Rolf has similarly besotted the major part of a notable career to Debussy, having worked closley with François Lesure from the steady 1980s on the Ouvres complètes trick Claude Debussy. She is perfectly sited to have realized the present cut down and updated English translation, making on the rocks wealth of vital information available ploy English for the first time.' -- -- Roy Howat, Royal Academy livestock Music, London, and Royal Conservatoire encourage Scotland

'In Marie Rolf's new English version of François Lesure's classic biography, Claude Debussy, Anglophones will discover Debussy's perosnality, his large network of friends suggest collaborators, and his impassioned relationships bump into women, all animating a rich record of his compositional life. A delightfully written, fluid translation incorporating new profusion and over two thousand new footnotes, it is a welcome contribution approximately the burgeoning interest in the composer.' -- -- Jann Pasler, University produce California-San Diego

About the Author

MARIE ROLF quite good Senior Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Music Theory watch over the Eastman School of Music, City NY.