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Debussy letters / selected and edited by François Lesure and Roger Nichols ; translated by Roger Nichols.

By: Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918.
Contributor(s): Lesure, François | Nichols, Roger.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1987Description: xxvi, 355 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0674194292.Subject(s): Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Correspondence. Selections | Composers -- France -- CorrespondenceDDC classification: 780.92 DEB
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Revised edition of Lettres 1884-1918, with additional letters and translation.

Bibliography: p. 337 - Includes index.

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Debussy's correspondence of musical interest was compiled by Lesure (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris) as Lettres 1884-1918 (1980). The letters form a diary of his life and compositions, and contain remarks on other musicians-an excellent adjunct to Debussy biographies and his published articles. Lesure previously collected Debussy's critical writings, Monsieur Croche et autres ecrits (1971), translated by Richard L. Smith as Debussy on Music (CH, Dec '77). Debussy Letters has 56 letters added by Roger Nichols, the translator, with expanded explanatory notes. The translation is easy to read, idiomatic, and in conversational style. (From an 1895 letter to the painter Lerolle about the opera Pelleas: ``I think you'll like the scene in front of the cave.'' Edward Lockspeiser's standard biography, Debussy: His Life and Mind, 1962, has: ``I believe that the scene before the grotto will please you.'') Contains 311 letters, 37 photos, short biography and notes, and chronology. Highly recommended for all university levels, general readers, and public library patrons.-K. Thomerson, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville/St. Louis Conservatory of Music

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