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Chapter 16 - Composers with Whom Debussy Was Associated

from Part III - People and Milieu

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2024

Simon Trezise
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Trinity College Dublin
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Debussy was associated with various French composers whose work stylistically spanned nineteenth-century tradition to the twentieth-century avant-garde. This chapter explores his connections with Ernest Guiraud, Ernest Chausson, Camille Saint-Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Paul Dukas, and Erik Satie. It assesses key issues in each setting. Various relationships are represented here: the student-teacher archetype, less formalised mentorship, peer friendships, the more distant collegial relationship, and sometimes adversarial exchanges. Debussy and these composers engaged with each other in multiple ways; dynamics shifted such that the student became the teacher, a distant figure became a colleague, a peer became a critic. The study of these relationships casts new light on Debussy and the other parties.

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Debussy in Context , pp. 150 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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