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020 $a9781524731922 (hbk.) :$cNT$1013
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
050 00$aML410.D28$bW35 2018
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100 1 $aWalsh, Stephen,$d1942-$eauthor.
245 10$aDebussy :$ba painter in sound /$cby Stephen Walsh.
250 $aFirst United States edition.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2018.
300 $aix, 323 p., 8 unnumbered p. :$bportraits ;$c25 cm.
500 $aThis is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf-- Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-311) and index.
505 0 $aPrelude : A biography of sorts -- The prisoner and the prodigy -- Songs for Marie -- Up at the villa -- New rules, old morals -- Mallarmé and Maeterlinck -- Bilitis and other women -- Lilly versus the piano -- Taking to the water -- Images in name as well as fact -- A crumbling house and a sunken cathedral -- Theatres of the body and the mind -- War in black and white -- Indian summer, stygian winter -- What the modern made of him.
520 $aClaude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers. He is the modernist everyone loves. How did he manage this? Was it through the association of his music with visual images, or was it simply that, by throwing out the rule book of the Paris Conservatoire where he studied, his music put beauty of sound above the spiritual ambitions of the German tradition from which those rules derived. Stephen Walsh's thought-provoking biography, told partly through the events of Debussy's life, and partly through a critical discussion of his music, addresses these and other questions about one of the most influential composers of the early twentieth century.
550 $aWorldShare provided record.
600 10$aDebussy, Claude,$d1862-1918.
650 0$aComposers$zFrance$vBiography.