Claude Debussy, Pelleas Et Melisande

by Roger Nichols and Richard Langham Smith

Book Overview

This is the first comprehensive guide to Pelleas et Melisande, Debussy's only completed opera, written by three of the leading authorities on French music of the period.

As a background to the opera Richard Langham Smith discusses the play, by the Belgian playwright Maeterlinck, and considers its literary roots. David Grayson then traces the genesis and composition of the opera, examining also the sketches and rejected versions in order to illuminate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521314461
• ISBN13: 9780521314466
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"