A Portrait of Claude Debussy

By Marcel Dietschy and William Ashbrook Margaret G. Cobb Marcel Dietschy

Book Overview

When this book was first published in French in 1962, it was hailed as an invaluable and reliable source of reference for many previously unpublished facts about the great composer. With painstaking attention to detail, Dietschy unearthed documents about every personality connected with Debussy, offering particularly novel information about Debussy's family and early life. Biographical rather than musicological, his deeply sensitive and sympathetic approach to Debussy's life and works yields many fresh insights into Debussy's complex personality. This first English translation incorporates Dietschy's later corrections as well as an updated bibliography and list of works.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0193154692
• ISBN13: 9780193154698
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.9" x 6.4"