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Author : Jane F. Fulcher
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0691090424
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.
Author : Stephen Walsh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571330188
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.
Author : François Lesure,Marie Rolf
Publisher : Eastman Studies in Music
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580469036
English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.
Author : Catherine Kautsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442269835
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.
Author : Harvey Lee Snyder
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574674828
(Amadeus). Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartok to write their iconoclastic works, and his harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle Epoque, his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output, only Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun , La mer , and Clair de lune are widely known. Harvey Lee Snyder addresses this cultural neglect by presenting the composer and his music, without jargon or biographical trivia, in a richly detailed, accurate narrative that reads like a novel. Here is the story of a poor, unschooled Parisian boy swept by odd coincidences to the Paris Conservatory at age ten. Here is a brilliant man struggling to invent a tonal language capable of expressing his unique musical vision, finding inspiration not in Bach and Beethoven but in Mallarme's poetry and the paintings of Whistler and Turner; a man determined to end two centuries of Germanic domination of European music. Here is a reclusive, gentle man whose misguided love affairs ended in scandal and scorn. His hard work failed to end decades of poverty and debt, but when he died in 1918, he was and has remained the foremost French composer of the twentieth century.
Author : Léon Vallas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X001371065
Author : Peter Clive
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461722809
As an influential and well-connected composer, Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) had encountered, befriended, and collaborated with hundreds of people over his significant career. In Brahms and His World: A Biographical Dictionary, author Peter Clive provides extensive and up-to-date information on the composer's personal and professional association with some 430 persons. These persons include relatives, friends, acquaintances, and physicians; fellow musicians and composers whom Brahms particularly admired and in the editions of whose works he was involved; conductors, instrumentalists, and singers who took part in notable or first performances of his works; poets whose texts he set to music; publishers and artists; and even the rulers of certain German states with whom he had significant contact. Offering information not usually available in Brahms biographies, this volume combines findings from both primary and secondary sources, giving insights into Brahms' character, his life, and his career, and shedding light on the educated middle and upper class culture of the nineteenth century. A comprehensive chronology of Brahms' life, a bibliography, and two indexes round out this important reference guide.
Author : François De Médicis,Steven Huebner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781580465250
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 : Wendy Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1993-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0756775302
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!
Author : Maurice Dumesnil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258849674
This is a new release of the original 1940 edition.
Author : Mark DeVoto
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1576470903
This new book on Debussy's music comprises analytical studies of individual works not widely examined previously, including the Fantaisie for piano and orchestra, La demoiselle élue, Nuages, and Gigues. A discussion of the tonal structure of the first movement of La mer finds new relevance in the overused term symphonic in relation to Debussy's position in the history of French orchestral music. An extensive essay documents Debussy's aural images in his propensity for recycling his own musical ideas and quoting the music of other composers. A final lighthearted chapter, Debussy and Ravel: How to Tell Them Apart, systematically addresses this century-old critics' conundrum.
Author : Jessica Wiskus
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226274256
Between present and past, visible and invisible, and sensation and idea, there is resonance—so philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued and so Jessica Wiskus explores in The Rhythm of Thought. Holding the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, the paintings of Paul Cézanne, the prose of Marcel Proust, and the music of Claude Debussy under Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological light, she offers innovative interpretations of some of these artists’ masterworks, in turn articulating a new perspective on Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. More than merely recovering Merleau-Ponty’s thought, Wiskus thinks according to it. First examining these artists in relation to noncoincidence—as silence in poetry, depth in painting, memory in literature, and rhythm in music—she moves through an array of their artworks toward some of Merleau-Ponty’s most exciting themes: our bodily relationship to the world and the dynamic process of expression. She closes with an examination of synesthesia as an intertwining of internal and external realms and a call, finally, for philosophical inquiry as a mode of artistic expression. Structured like a piece of music itself, The Rhythm of Thought offers new contexts in which to approach art, philosophy, and the resonance between them.
Author : Teresa Davidian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442271463
Claude Debussy holds a place as a one of the most recognizable and influential composers in the classical music. Debussy forged a new and influential sound for the twentieth century with his remarkable harmonies, fluid rhythms, airy textures, and an instinct for mystery and beauty. In Experiencing Debussy: A Listener’s Companion, Teresa Davidian welcomes readers into the infectious appeal of Debussy’s major works to consider how they can still attract and move audiences. In such works as the hauntingly beautiful Clair de Lune and the groundbreaking Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Davidian looks beneath the surface of the music to explain its power, all the while drawing connections between different pieces to place them securely within the context of Debussy’s life and times. Written in an accessible style, Experiencing Debussy provides an engaging tour through Debussy’s works for the concertgoers, movie buffs, performers, and students regardless of musical background.
Author : Simon Trezise
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521654785
Often considered the father of twentieth-century music, Debussy was a visionary whose influence is still felt. This book offers a wide-ranging series of essays on Debussy the man, the musician and composer. It contains insights into his character, his relationship to his Parisian environment and his musical works across all genres, with challenging views on the roles of nature and eroticism in his life and music. His music is considered through the characteristic themes of sonority, rhythm, tonality and form, with closing chapters considering the performance and reception of his music in the first years of the new century and our view of Debussy today as a major force in Western culture. This comprehensive view of Debussy is written by a team of specialists for students and informed music lovers.
Author : William H. Daly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436819555
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.