Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography, Francois Lesure, Marie Rolf

Автор: Roberts, Paul
Название: Claude Debussy (20th Century Composers)
ISBN: 0714835129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780714835129
Издательство: Phaidon Press Ltd.
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Описание: Claude Debussy (1862-1918) was a great harmonic innovator and one of the most original musical voices of the twentieth century. He created fresh tonal perspectives without abandoning tonality itself. This book discusses his compositions and his life, with extracts and various illustrations of his life and work.

Автор: McAuliffe Mary
Название: Dawn of the Belle Epoque: The Paris of Monet, Zola, Bernhardt, Eiffel, Debussy, Clemenceau, and Their Friends
ISBN: 1442209283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442209282
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Описание: A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising--Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third Republic. By 1900, Paris had recovered and the Belle Epoque was in full flower, but the decades between were difficult, marked by struggles between republicans and monarchists, the Republic and the Church, and an ongoing economic malaise, darkened by a rising tide of virulent anti-Semitism. Yet these same years also witnessed an extraordinary blossoming in art, literature, poetry, and music, with the Parisian cultural scene dramatically upended by revolutionaries such as Monet, Zola, Rodin, and Debussy, even while Gustave Eiffel was challenging architectural tradition with his iconic tower. Through the eyes of these pioneers and others, including Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Clemenceau, Marie Curie, and Cesar Ritz, we witness their struggles with the forces of tradition during the final years of a century hurtling towards its close. Through rich illustrations and vivid narrative, McAuliffe brings this vibrant and seminal era to life.

Автор: Person James E.
Название: Russell Kirk: A Critical Biography of a Conservative Mind
ISBN: 1442251859 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442251854
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: This first full-length treatment of Russell Kirk`s life and accomplishments blends new biographical insights and critical perspectives about the author of the ground-breaking The Conservative Mind.

Автор: Bident Christophe
Название: Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography
ISBN: 0823281752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823281756
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Maurice Blanchot (1907–2003) was one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. His novels, shorter narratives, literary criticism, and fragmentary texts exercised enormous influence over several generations of writers, artists, and philosophers. In works such as Thomas the Obscure, The Instant of my Death, The Writing of the Disaster, The Unavowable Community, Blanchot produced some of the most incisive statements of what it meant to experience the traumas and turmoils of the twentieth century.
As a journalist and political activist, Blanchot had a public side that coexisted uneasily with an inclination to secrecy, a refusal of interviews and photographs, and a reputation for mysteriousness and seclusion. These public and private Blanchots came together in complicated ways at some of the twentieth century's most momentous occasions. He was among the public intellectuals participating in the May ’68 revolution in Paris and helped organize opposition to the Algerian war. During World War II, he found himself moments away from being executed by the Nazis. More controversially, he had been active in far-right circles in the ’30s.
Now translated into English, Christophe Bident’s magisterial, scrupulous, much-praised critical biography provides the first full-length account of Blanchot’s itinerary, drawing on unpublished letters and on interviews with the writer’s close friends. But the book is both a biography and far more. Beyond filling out a life famous for its obscurity, Bident’s book will transform the way readers of Blanchot respond to this major intellectual figure by offering a genealogy of his thought, a distinctive trajectory that is at once imaginative and speculative, at once aligned with literary modernity and a close companion and friend to philosophy.
The book is also a historical work, unpacking the ‘transformation of convictions’ of an author who moved from the far-right in the 1930s to the far-left in the 1950s and after. Bident’s extensive archival research explores the complex ways that Blanchot’s work enters into engagement with his contemporaries, making the book also a portrait of the circles in which he moved, which included friends such as Georges Bataille, Marguerite Duras, Emmanuel Levinas, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida.
Finally, the book traces the strong links between Blanchot’s life and an oeuvre that nonetheless aspires to anonymity. Ultimately, Bident shows how Blanchot’s life itself becomes an oeuvre—becomes a literature that bears the traces of that life secretly. In its even-handed appraisal, Bident’s sophisticated reading of Blanchot’s life together with his work offers a much-needed corrective to the range of cruder accounts, whether from Blanchot’s detractors or from his champions, of a life too easily sensationalized.
This definitive biography of a seminal figure of our time will be essential reading for anyone concerned with twentieth-century literature, thought, culture, and politics.

Автор: Davidian Teresa
Название: Experiencing Debussy: A Listener`s Companion
ISBN: 1442271450 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442271456
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: Blending history and musical analysis, Davidian reveals the genius of Debussy`s major works. As Davidian looks beneath the surface of the music to explain its power, she contextualizes them within Debussy`s life and nineteenth-century Paris.

Название: Debussy`s resonance
ISBN: 1580465250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781580465250
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: Some of Debussy`s most beloved pieces, as well as lesser-known ones from his early years, set in a rich cultural context by leading experts from the English- and French-speaking worlds.

Автор: Jensen
Название: Debussy
ISBN: 0199730059 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199730056
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Nearly one hundred years after the death of its composer, the music of Claude Debussy has lost none of its appeal. In this authoritative biography, author Eric Frederick Jensen brings together the most recent biographical research, including a revised catalogue of Debussy`s compositions and the first complete edition of his correspondence.

Автор: Richard E. Mueller
Название: Beauty and Innovation in la machine chinoise: Falla, Debussy, Ravel, Roussel
ISBN: 1576472787 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781576472781
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: An innovative look at musical exoticism in works by Falla, Debussy, Ravel, and Roussel, a type of piece that Debussy termed la machine chinoise.

Название: Debussy
ISBN: 0571330177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780571330171
Издательство: Faber
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Описание: SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY AWARD FOR STORYTELLINGClaude Debussy was that rare creature, a composer who reinvented the language of music without alienating the majority of music lovers.

Название: Debussy studies
ISBN: 0521121612 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521121613
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Our knowledge of Debussy`s life and music has increased considerably during the last decade or so. In this volume topics include an examination of Debussy`s working methods, his visual tastes and his response to literature, his reception in England, as well as aspects of his performance practice.