Claude Debussy : a critical biography /: a critical biography. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Claude Debussy : a critical biography /: a critical biography. (2019)
- Main Title:
- Claude Debussy : a critical biography
- Further Information:
- Note: François Lesure ; English translation and revised edition by Marie Rolf.
- Authors:
- Lesure, François
- Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; Preface to the Translation and Revised Edition; Introduction; 1 An Unsettled Childhood: 1862-72; The Parents; Cannes; The Commune; Antoinette Mauté; Genealogy; 2 Failure of a Pianist: 1872-79; A Ten-Year-Old Child at the Conservatoire; Marmontel's Class; First Concerts at Chauny; A Second Prize in Piano; Durand's Class; First Friends at School; Stay in Chenonceaux; 3 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 4 The Path to the Prix de Rome: 1882-84Second 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; 5 The Villa Medici: 1885-87; Ernest and Gabrielle Hébert; The "Begging Dog"; Visitors at the Villa; The Second Year; The End of the Residency in Rome; 6 Beginning of the Bohemian Period: 1887-89; Achille and His Family; Classmates and Friends; The Ariettes and Bayreuth; La damoiselle élue; A Life in the Cafés; The Pousset Tavern; Chez Thommen; From the Ariettes to the Cinq poèmes The 1889 World's FairConversations with Guiraud; 7 From Baudelaire to Mallarmé: 1890-91; The Fantaisie for Piano; Rodrigue et Chimène; Gaby Dupont; The Librairie de l'art indépendant; The Chat Noir; Mallarmé; Several Publications and a Commission; Discovery of Maeterlinck; 8 Esotericism and Symbolism: 1892; OccultistFrontcover; Contents; Preface to the Translation and Revised Edition; Introduction; 1 An Unsettled Childhood: 1862-72; The Parents; Cannes; The Commune; Antoinette Mauté; Genealogy; 2 Failure of a Pianist: 1872-79; A Ten-Year-Old Child at the Conservatoire; Marmontel's Class; First Concerts at Chauny; A Second Prize in Piano; Durand's Class; First Friends at School; Stay in Chenonceaux; 3 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 4 The Path to the Prix de Rome: 1882-84Second 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; 5 The Villa Medici: 1885-87; Ernest and Gabrielle Hébert; The "Begging Dog"; Visitors at the Villa; The Second Year; The End of the Residency in Rome; 6 Beginning of the Bohemian Period: 1887-89; Achille and His Family; Classmates and Friends; The Ariettes and Bayreuth; La damoiselle élue; A Life in the Cafés; The Pousset Tavern; Chez Thommen; From the Ariettes to the Cinq poèmes The 1889 World's FairConversations with Guiraud; 7 From Baudelaire to Mallarmé: 1890-91; The Fantaisie for Piano; Rodrigue et Chimène; Gaby Dupont; The Librairie de l'art indépendant; The Chat Noir; Mallarmé; Several Publications and a Commission; Discovery of Maeterlinck; 8 Esotericism and Symbolism: 1892; Occultist Circles; A Home: The Rue de Londres; American Project; 9 The Chausson Year: 1893; Premiere of La damoiselle élue; Performances of Wagner; Visits to Luzancy; Boris Godunov; Pelléas at the Bouffes-Parisiens; The Beginnings of Debussy's Pelléas; The String Quartet 10 A "Fairy Tale" Gone Awry: 1894Bourgeois Interactions; Concert in Brussels; Engagement to Thérèse Roger; The Breakup and Its Ripple Effects; Return to Pelléas and the Marche écossaise; Georges Hartmann; Premiere of the Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; 11 Pierre Louÿs; The Lean Years: 1895-96; The Limits of a Friendship; New Performance of the Prélude; Collaborative Projects with Louÿs-OEdipe à Colone; Cendrelune; Daphnis et Chloë; Aphrodite; La saulaie; 12 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 Pelléas13 From Bachelorhood to Marriage: 1897-99; Some Publications; Frères en art; Nuits blanches; A Year of Change: 1899; Lilly Texier; A Love Slowly Shared; Marriage to Lilly; 14 Nocturnes: 1900-1901; Genesis of the Nocturnes; Hope for Pelléas; La damoiselle élue at the World's Fair; Premiere of the First Two Nocturnes; The Programming of Pelléas; Premiere of the Three Nocturnes; 15 The Composer as Critic: 1901-3; Compositional Activities at the Beginning of 1901; Critic at La revue blanche; Monsieur Croche; Critic for Gil Blas; Emergence of the "National Tradition" … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Rochester : University of Rochester Press
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 780.92
Composers -- France -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Composers & Musicians
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical
MUSIC / Reference
MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician
Composers
France
Electronic books
Electronic books
Biography - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781787444515
1787444511 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781580469036
1580469035 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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