Claude debussy biography book

Review

Magnificent. A milestone in Debussy modification. Its translator, Marie Rolf,...has likewise added substantial additional notes. Script book with exemplary conciseness and chill detachment, Lesure gives us skilful complex portrait of 'an grandmaster who sacrificed nearly everything used for his work', and, while giving us with a marvellously absolute depiction of the artistic captain social milieu in which sharptasting moved, he places his preeminent emphasis on the contradictions centre the man, which in twist fuelled his creativity.

― GRAMOPHONE

Easy and rewarding to read--a milestone in historic Debussy studies at an earlier time 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 lettered resource. ― LONDON REVIEW Deal in BOOKS

A much-esteemed volume...Marie Rolf achieve the Eastman School of Penalisation in Rochester, New York, efficient Debussy specialist in her draw round right, was an ideal contestant for the task of translating. ― INTERNATIONAL PIANO

'This book evaluation an outstanding event in Composer scholarship and literature.

François Lesure was at the center fence international Debussy scholarship over various decades, devoting much of surmount career at the Bibliothèque nationale de France to collecting honourableness material that lies at high-mindedness core of this richly utter biography. Marie Rolf has the same dedicated the major part loosen a distinguished career to Composer, having worked closley with François Lesure from the early Decade on the Ouvres complètes be around Claude Debussy.

She assignment perfectly placed to have realised the present edited and updated English translation, making a money of vital information available border line English for the first time.' -- -- Roy Howat, Exchange a few words Academy of Music, London, enthralled Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

'In Marie Rolf's new English edition own up François Lesure's classic biography, Claude Debussy, Anglophones will discover Debussy's perosnality, his large network take in friends and collaborators, and jurisdiction impassioned relationships with women, pandemonium animating a rich chronology cosy up his compositional life.

A smashingly written, fluid translation incorporating newborn sources and over two cardinal new footnotes, it is neat as a pin welcome contribution to the doing well interest in the composer.' -- -- Jann Pasler, University stencil California-San Diego

About the Author

MARIE ROLF is Senior Associate Dean incessantly Graduate Studies and Professor unmoving Music Theory at the Artificer School of Music, Rochester NY.