Claude debussy biography book

Debussy's Resonance · Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht · Beauty and Innovation in la machine chinoise.

English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy..

Review

Magnificent. A milestone in Debussy scholarship. Its translator, Marie Rolf,...has also added substantial additional notes.

Writing with exemplary conciseness and cool detachment, Lesure gives us a complex portrait of 'an artist who sacrificed nearly everything for his work', and, while presenting us with a marvellously detailed depiction of the artistic and social milieu in which he moved, he places his primary emphasis on the contradictions within the man, which in turn fuelled his creativity.

― GRAMOPHONE

Easy and rewarding to read--a landmark in historic Debussy studies and an essential source in this new enlarged edition and translation.

Claude Debussy was a French composer.

François Lesure's critical biography of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that.

English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy.

François Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that.

― MUSICAL OPINION

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

An invaluable scholarly resource.

― LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

A much-esteemed volume...Marie Rolf of the Eastman School of Music in