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New from the University of Rochester Press is the long-awaited first English translation and revised edition of François Lesure’s acclaimed biography of Claude Debussy, originally published by Fayard in 2003.
Our thanks to translator and Debussy authority Marie Rolf for taking the time to provide a few words of introduction about this seminal work.
A great composer deserves a great biography.
Debussy got his due in 2003, but the English-speaking world hardly knew about it.
Quintette a vent claude debussy biography
Written by François Lesure, Claude Debussy: Biographie critique instantly became the most comprehensive and reliable study of this astounding composer’s life and creative career. Yet it received few reviews outside of the French-speaking world, and so has been familiar mainly to specialist scholars.
Several years ago, Lesure’s widow Anik Devriès (herself an important musicologist) gave me permission to translate her late husband’s book and to revise and update it.
This project proved to be immensely gr