Debussy : his life and mind.
From another angle Debussy's achievement is seen to have many affinities with the visual arts, and it also has roots in the literary movement that extends from Baudelaire to Marcel Proust. Here Mr. Lockspeiser greatly enlarges upon the theory that the work of Debussy realizes Wagner's idea...
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Table of Contents:
- Volume 1. Part I. Youth: 1862-1887. The Debussy family ; Childhood ; Early conservatoire years ; Chenonceaux ; Russia ; Ernest Guiraud ; The Parnassians ; Rome
- Part II. Maturity: 1888-1902. Bayreuth ; Wagnerian friends ; The Orient and the art nouveau ; Chausson, Regnier, and Laforgue ; Reynold's and the Chat Noir ; Mallarme ; Pierre Louys ; Gide and Wilde ; Gabrielle Dupont and Rosalie Texier ; Pelleas et Melisande
- Appendix. The von Meck family ; Conversations with Ernest Guiraud ; The hoaxes of Andre de Ternant ; Swinburne and Poe in France ; Mallarme on Pelleas ; The manuscripts of Pelleas ; Le Soleil des Morts ; Opinions of Debussy and Marcel Proust ; Autographs of Debussy.
- Volume 2. Part 1. The years of Debussyism: 1902-1914. Turner, Monet, and Hokusai ; The technique of illusion ; Monsieur Croche and Monsieur Teste ; Debussyism ; Romain Rolland and Marcel Proust ; Strauss and Mahler
- Part II. The later years: 1908-1918. Travels abroad ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Maud Allan and Gabriele d'Annunzio ; Diaghilev and Stravinsky ; Portraits ; The war
- Debussy's magic language
- Appendixes. Projects for As You Like It ; Manuel de Falla on Debussy ; Rodin, Debussy, and Nijinsky ; Puccini and Debussy ; Debussy and occultism ; The theories of Gaston Bachelard ; Debussy's critical articles.