{"product_id":"afternoon-of-a-faun-how-debussy-created-a-new-music-for-the-modern-world-9781574674491","title":"Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClaude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky  Schoenberg  and Bartìk to write their iconoclastic works  and his harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz. Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle »poque  his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output  only ÊPrelude to the Afternoon of a FaunÊ  ÊLa merÊ  and ÊClair de luneÊ are widely known.ÞHarvey Lee Snyder addresses this cultural neglect by presenting the composer and his music  without jargon or biographical trivia  in a richly detailed  accurate narrative that reads like a novel. Here is the story of a poor  unschooled Parisian boy swept by odd coincidences to the Paris Conservatory at age ten. Here is a brilliant man struggling to invent a tonal language capable of expressing his unique musical vision  finding inspiration not in Bach and Beethoven but in Mallarm©'s poetry and the paintings of Whistler and Turner; a man determined to end two centuries of Germanic domination of European music. Here is a reclusive  gentle man whose misguided love affairs ended in scandal and scorn. His hard work failed to end decades of poverty and debt  but when he died in 1918  he was and has remained the foremost French composer of the twentieth century.","brand":"Hal Leonard Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48886404088151,"sku":"9781574674491","price":30.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781574674491.jpg?v=1722539916","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/afternoon-of-a-faun-how-debussy-created-a-new-music-for-the-modern-world-9781574674491","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}