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Eastman studies in music ; v. 159
Eastman studies in music ; v. 159. ^A494093
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An unsettled childhood: 1862-72. The parents ; Cannes ; The commune ; Antoinette Maute ; Genealogy -- Failure of a pianist: 1872-79. A ten-year-old child at the conservatoire ; Marmontel's Class ; First concerts at Chauny ; second prize in piano ; Durand's class ; First friends at school ; Stay in Chenonceaux -- Birth of a composer: 1880-82. First prize in accompanying ; The Villa Oppenheim in Florence ; Guiraud's class ; Accompanist for Mme Moreau-Sainti ; Marie Vasnier ; First visit to Russia ; Songs for Marie -- The path to the Prix de Rome: 1882-8. Second visit to Russia ; A second prize in the Prix de Rome ; The Concordia ; A rebel at the conservatoire ; L'enfant prodigue and the prodigal son ; Farewell to Marie -- The villa Medici: 1885-87. Ernest and Gabrielle Hebert ; The "begging dog" ; Visitors at the villa ; The second year ; The end of the residency in Rome -- Beginning of the Bohemian period: 1887-89. Achille and his family ; Classmates and friends ; The Ariettes and Bayreuth ; La damoiselle elue ; A life in the cafes ; The Pousset Tavern ; Chez Thommen ; From the Ariettes to the cinq poemes ; The 1889 world's fair ; Conversations with Guiraud -- From Baudelaire to Mallarmé: 1890-91. The fantaisie for piano ; Rodrigue et Chimene ; Gaby Dupont ; The librairie de l'art independant ; The chat noir ; Mallarme ; Several publications and a comission ; Discovery of Maeterlinck -- Esotericism and symbolism: 1892. Occultist circles ; A home: the rue de Londres ; American project -- The Chausson year : 1893. Premiere of La damoiselle elue ; Performances of Wagner ; Visits to Luzancy ; Boris Godunov ; Pelleas at the Bouffes-Parisiens ; The beginnings of Debussy's Pelleas ; The string quartet -- A "fairy tale" gone awry : 1894. ourgeois interactions ; Concert in Brussels ; Engagement to Therese Roger ; The breakup and its ripple effects ; Return to Pelleas and the Marche ecossaise ; Georges Hartmann ; Premiere of the Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune -- Pierre Louÿs; the lean years: 1895-96. The limits of friendship ; New performance of the Prelude ; Collaborative projects with Louys, Oedipe a Colone ; Cendrelune ; Daphnis et Chloe ; Aphrodite ; La saulaie -- Pelléas: the long wait: 1895-98. The fontaines ; Life with Gaby ; Works in progress ; A plan to get the opera performed (1895) ; Other plans for Pelleas -- From bachelorhood to marriage: 1897-99. Some publications ; Freres en art ; Nuits blanches ; A year of change:1899 ; Lilly Texier ; A love slowly shared ; Marriage to Lilly -- Nocturnes : 1900-1901. Genesis of the nocturnes ; Hope for Pelleas ; La damoiselle elue at the World's Fair ; Premiere of the first two Nocturnes ; The programming of Pelleas ; Premiere of the three nocturnes -- The composer as critic : 1901-3. Compositional activities at the begining of 1901 ; Critic at La revue blanche ; Monsieur Croche ; Critic for Gil Blas ; Emergence of the "National Tradition" -- Pelléas et Mélisande: 1902. Albert Carre and the opera-comique ; Rehearsals for Pelleas ; Conflict with Maeterlinck ; The birth of Pelleas ; Critical reception of Pelleas ; The "Bataillon sacre" ; isit to London ; A Summer in Bichain ; The revival of Pelleas -- From the Fêtes galantes to La Mer: 1903. First consequences of fame ; Concerts in Paris and in the provinces ; New works: the images ; A very productive Summer: La Mer ; Return to Paris and initial encounters with Emma Bardac -- Debussyism: a new life: 1904. Debussy's increasing visibility and influence ; The "Pelleastres" ; Emma Bardac ; The lovers escape to Jersey ; The drama of the breakup -- La Mer: 1905. The divorce and its consequences ; Concerts and critics ; The premier of la mer ; Settling into the avenue du Bois de Boulogne -- Projects and skirmishes: 1906-7. New relationships ; The growing fame of Pelleas ; New controversies ; Debussy, Ravel ; The Roman de Tristan -- Orchestra conductor: 1908. Taking the plunge: marrying Emma and conducting La Mer ; Pelleas abroad ; Images for piano (second series) and further dissemination of Pelleas ; Projects and interviews -- "The procrastination syndrome": 1909. Concert in London ; Operatic projects ; La chute de la maison Usher ; Laloy's book and Le cas Debussy ; Works for piano -- Orchestral Images and piano Préludes: 1910. remieres of "Iberia" and "Rondes de printemps" ; Preludes, book one, for piano ; Foreign composers in Paris ; Relationship with Emma in crisis ; Maud Allan and Khamma ; Trip to Vienna and Budapest ; Proliferation of concerts in Paris and beyond -- Le martyre de Saint Sébastien: 1911. Origins of Le matyre ; Concerts and performers ; Rehearsals and the premiere of Le martyre ; Trip to Turin ; Stay in Houlgate -- The year of the ballets: 1912. L'apres-midi d'un faune ; Igor Stravinsky ; The origins of Jeux ; Critic for the S.I.M. journal -- Jeux: travel to Russia: 1913. Completion and premiere of the Images for orchestra ; Preludes, book two, and La boite a joujoux ; Premiere of Jeux ; Financial distress ; Trip to Russia -- The final trips: 1914. From one project to another ; Trip to Rome ; Trip to the Netherlands ; Debussy the pianist ; An American interview -- The war: Pourville: 1914-15. tay in angers ; An unexpectedly productive Summer ; An operation -- "The factories of nothingness": 1916-18. Visits and an invalid's torments ; Stay in Le Moulleau ; Satie: Parade ; The chalet habas ; The last months ; Postlude. |
| Abstract |
This book is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well as of the artistic milieu in which he worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensively on Debussy's complete correspondence (at that time unpublished), a painstaking tracking of contemporary reviews and comments in the press, and an examination of other primary documents-including private diaries-that had not been available to previous biographers. As such, Lesure's book presents a wealth of new information while debunking a number of myths that had developed over the years since the composer's death in 1918. The present English translation and revised edition, by Debussy authority Marie Rolf, augments Lesure's numerous notes with several thousand new ones by Rolf, providing more precise information on crucial and sometimes contentious points. It also reflects Debussy scholarship that has appeared since 2003, updating Lesure's seminal work. Rolf's translation-the first ever-will make Lesure's findings accessible to scholars, musicians, and music lovers in English-speaking lands and around the world. |
| General note | "Original French-language edition: Claude Debussy: Biographie critique by Francois Lesure" by Librairie Artheme Fayarad 2003. |
| General note | Genealogy graph on page 12. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| LCCN | 2019005306 |
| ISBN | 9781580469036 hardcover alkaline paper |
| ISBN | 1580469035 hardcover alkaline paper |
