Name: Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a new Music for the Modern World (Amadeus)
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Author: Harvey Lee Snyder

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Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a new Music for the Modern World (Amadeus)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Amadeus Press

Author

Harvey Lee Snyder

Year

2015

Language

English

Pages

390

Format

Hardcover

ISBN13

9781574674491

Synopsis "Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a new Music for the Modern World (Amadeus) "

Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky Schoenberg and Bartik to write their iconoclastic works and his harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle "poque his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output only EPrelude to the Afternoon of a FaunE ELa merE and EClair de luneE are widely known.THHarvey Lee Snyder addresses this cultural neglect by presenting the composer and his music without jargon or biographical trivia in a richly detailed accurate narrative that reads like a novel. Here is the story of a poor unschooled Parisian boy swept by odd coincidences to the Paris Conservatory at age ten. Here is a brilliant man struggling to invent a tonal language capable of expressing his unique musical vision finding inspiration not in Bach and Beethoven but in Mallarm (c)'s poetry and the paintings of Whistler and Turner; a man determined to end two centuries of Germanic domination of European music. Here is a reclusive gentle man whose misguided love affairs ended in scandal and scorn. His hard work failed to end decades of poverty and debt but when he died in 1918 he was and has remained the foremost French composer of the twentieth century.

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