English translation and revised edition of the most comprehensive and reliable biography of Claude Debussy. Fran?ois Lesure's critical biography of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) 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 whichhe worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensively on Debussy's complete correspondence (at that time unpublished),...