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Marie Rolf Email: mrolf@esm.rochester.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
The Musical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3-4, Fall-Winter 2023, Pages 208–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdae001
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Marie Rolf, Claude Debussy: The Man in His Time, The Musical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 3-4, Fall-Winter 2023, Pages 208–247, https://doi.org/10.1093/musqtl/gdae001
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More than two decades ago, François Lesure published his magisterial biography of one of the world’s most innovative composers: Claude Debussy: Biographie critique (Fayard, 2003).1 Today it remains the most comprehensive account of Debussy’s life. Building on the foundations laid by previous biographers Léon Vallas, Marcel Dietschy, and Edward Lockspeiser, Lesure expanded our knowledge of Debussy’s daily experiences and the many artistic influences that shaped him as a composer. As head librarian of the Département de la Musique at the Bibliothèque nationale de France for nearly twenty years, Lesure had access to sources that were previously unknown, and his lifelong endeavor to collect Debussy’s entire correspondence (which, thanks to the work of Denis Herlin, was eventually published after Lesure’s death) aided him in piecing together the puzzle of the French composer’s life and exploding several myths that had been perpetuated by other authors.
Five years ago, I was privileged to publish Lesure’s seminal work in an English translation and revised edition, in Claude Debussy: A Critical Biography (University of Rochester Press, 2019), reflecting research that had appeared since the time of the original publication in French and extending its impact by making this cutting-edge scholarship accessible to a global audience of readers more comfortable with English than with French. The revised edition follows the basic chronological approach established by Lesure, although some passages are reordered to maintain a tighter narrative and, in some cases, to reflect the corrected dates of the letters cited. It incorporates nearly two thousand new endnotes that furnish or complete bibliographic details and that provide important contextual information for non-French readers, resulting in a book that is more than a third larger than the original French edition.
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