An accessible and thought-provoking biographical study of Claude Debussy (1862-1918), arguably one of the three or four most influential composers of the early twentieth century.
Stephen Walsh is a Professor of Music at Cardiff University, and
the author of several books on music, including Musorgsky and His
Circle (Faber, 2013) which was shortlisted for the Pushkin House
Russian Book Prize in 2014. The first volume of his major biography
of Stravinsky - Stravinsky: A Creative Spring - won the Royal
Philharmonic Society prize in 2000. Volume Two - Stravinsky: The
Second Exile - was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the ten
best books of 2006.
He was deputy music critic of The Observer from 1966 to 1985. He
now reviews for theartsdesk.com website and broadcasts regularly
for BBC Radio 3.
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