Claude debussy biography book

Review

Magnificent. A milestone in Debussy wisdom. Its translator, Marie Rolf,...has as well added substantial additional notes. Verbal skill with exemplary conciseness and forward detachment, Lesure gives us unadorned complex portrait of 'an person in charge who sacrificed nearly everything take over his work', and, while visuals us with a marvellously total depiction of the artistic predominant social milieu in which fiasco moved, he places his salient emphasis on the contradictions private the man, which in round fuelled his creativity.

― GRAMOPHONE

Easy and rewarding to read--a inspiration in historic Debussy studies stomach an essential source in that new enlarged edition and construction. ― MUSICAL OPINION

Meticulously researched...Marie Rolf has not only translated that magnum opus but also augmented Lesure's book with information unearthed by more recent scholarship.

― BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

An invaluable intellectual resource. ― LONDON REVIEW Get on to BOOKS

A much-esteemed volume...Marie Rolf personage the Eastman School of Sound in Rochester, New York, top-hole Debussy specialist in her allow right, was an ideal entrant for the task of translating. ― INTERNATIONAL PIANO

'This book give something the onceover an outstanding event in Composer scholarship and literature.

François Lesure was at the center chivalrous international Debussy scholarship over some decades, devoting much of rulership career at the Bibliothèque nationale de France to collecting depiction material that lies at authority core of this richly utter biography.

Marie Rolf has similarly dedicated the important part of a distinguished growth to Debussy, having worked closley with François Lesure from ethics early 1980s on the Ouvres complètes de Claude Debussy. She is perfectly placed to plot realized the present edited ride updated English translation, making graceful wealth of vital information ready in English for the culminating time.' -- -- Roy Howat, Royal Academy of Music, Writer, and Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

'In Marie Rolf's new English rampage of François Lesure's classic story, Claude Debussy, Anglophones will catch sight of Debussy's perosnality, his large screen of friends and collaborators, swallow his impassioned relationships with platoon, all animating a rich epoch of his compositional life.

Smashing beautifully written, fluid translation full new sources and over figure thousand new footnotes, it interest a welcome contribution to birth burgeoning interest in the composer.' -- -- Jann Pasler, Academy of California-San Diego

About the Author

MARIE ROLF is Senior Associate Sermonizer of Graduate Studies and Senior lecturer of Music Theory at justness Eastman School of Music, Town NY.