Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy Roberts PaulPaperback
Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy Roberts PaulPaperback Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique…
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Images: The Piano Music of Claude Debussy Roberts PaulPaperback
Paris at the turn of the 20th century was obsessed with the interrelations of the arts. The music of Claude Debussy, with its unique textures and dazzling colors, was the perfect counterpart to the bold new styles of painting in France. It was a time when artists and writers spoke of poetry as music, sounds as colors, and paintings as symphonies.
He also draws on his own performing experience to touch on all the principal technical problems for a performer of Debussy's piano music. Paul Roberts probes the sources of Debussy's artistic inspiration, relating the "impressionist" titles to the artistic and literary ferment of the time. His many suggestions about interpreting the music will be particularly valuable to performers as well as