Book Review
Jun. 20th, 2011 10:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariClaude Debussy
by Paul Roberts
This nice biography gets to the facts about Debussy's life and music in a direct and thorough manner. Roberts makes especially good use of excerpts from letters and diaries to give a sense of how Debussy lived and was viewed in his own time - it helps to strip away all the retrospective veneer and glamour he has acquired over the last century. I liked getting an up close, more nitty gritty perspective on Debussy's struggles and his triumphs, his successes and failures.
by Paul Roberts
This nice biography gets to the facts about Debussy's life and music in a direct and thorough manner. Roberts makes especially good use of excerpts from letters and diaries to give a sense of how Debussy lived and was viewed in his own time - it helps to strip away all the retrospective veneer and glamour he has acquired over the last century. I liked getting an up close, more nitty gritty perspective on Debussy's struggles and his triumphs, his successes and failures.
