Debussy

Claude Debussy is one of the great modern composers not only for the beauty of his works, but also for having reinvented the language of music. This achievement was based on the association of his music with visual images and, to a large extent, on the rejection of the rules dictated by the Paris Conservatoire, to place the lyricism of sound above the spiritual ambitions of the German tradition, of the one from which these rules came. This suggestive biography of Stephen Walsh starts from this premise, and traces a subtle analysis of both the events that marked Debussy's life and his work. With an elegant, intelligent and transparent style, the book becomes an invitation to revisit the music of the French composer and rethink, once again, beauty.