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An enjoyable and impressive achievement. . . . Lively yet learned. . . . Walsh depicts Debussy's Paris with the same verve and scholarship that he applies to the man. -- he Economist Compelling. . . . Finely tuned. . . . [Walsh] employs a delightfully fluent prose to carry the general reader along. ----Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian Perceptive and authoritative. . . . A sensuous portrait of an iconic composer. . . . A richly detailed life of a modernist master. -- Kirkus (starred) Stephen Walsh has followed his magnificent, two-volume Stravinsky biography with this smaller but no less brilliant gem of a book on Debussy. Combining psychological perspicacity about his subject's life with deep insight into his music, Walsh has made me not only better understand the composer--he has also made me want to re-listen to and re-reflect upon every piece that Debussy ever wrote. --Harvey Sachs, author of Toscanini: Musician of Conscience Praise for Stephen Walsh: Outstanding. -- Booklist (starred) [Debussy] shines a welcome light on the composer, his music, and his times. -- Library Journal [A] wonderfully warm, wise and witty book about the greatest French composer of the modern era. As a comprehensive and integrated survey of Debussy's life and work, it could hardly be bettered. --Rupert Christiansen Literary Review In Debussy Stephen Walsh has produced a wonderfully detailed biography of a truly ground-breaking composer. This book should be of interest to any Debussy enthusiast. --John Powell, author of Why You Love Music and How Music Works Stephen Walsh's Debussy: A Painter in Sound articulates with skill, taste and flashes of humor the evolution of an artistic giant who preferred to leave things 'half said.' It is impeccably researched and intellectually engrossing--a thorough and important study of the composer who forever changed the direction of music in our time. --Stuart Isacoff, author of When the World Stopped to Listen: Van Cliburn's Cold War Triumph and Walsh is one of our most insightful writers on music, and his judgment always illuminates what it touches. . . . Published to mark the centenary of the composer's death, Debussy: A Painter in Sound concentrates on what truly matters. --Philip Hensher The Spectator

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Stephen Walsh is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cardiff University and the author of a number of books on music including Debussy: A Painter in Sound, Musorgsky and His Circle and the prizewinning, two-volume biography of Igor Stravinsky. He served for many years as deputy music critic for The Observer and writes reviews for a variety of publications.

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