Book contents
- Debussy in Context
- Composers in Context
- Debussy in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Notes on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Part I Paris: City, Politics, and Society
- Part II The Arts
- Part III People and Milieu
- Chapter 12 Debussy and the Family in Third-Republic France
- Chapter 13 Romantic Relationships
- Chapter 14 Relationships with Poets and Other Literary Figures
- Chapter 15 Publishers
- Chapter 16 Composers with Whom Debussy Was Associated
- Chapter 17 Music Education and the Prix de Rome
- Part IV Musical Life: Infrastructure and Earning a Living
- Part V The Music of Debussy’s Time
- Part VI Performers, Reception, and Posterity
- Recommendations for Further Reading and Research
- Index
Chapter 16 - Composers with Whom Debussy Was Associated
from Part III - People and Milieu
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 May 2024
- Debussy in Context
- Composers in Context
- Debussy in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- Notes on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Part I Paris: City, Politics, and Society
- Part II The Arts
- Part III People and Milieu
- Chapter 12 Debussy and the Family in Third-Republic France
- Chapter 13 Romantic Relationships
- Chapter 14 Relationships with Poets and Other Literary Figures
- Chapter 15 Publishers
- Chapter 16 Composers with Whom Debussy Was Associated
- Chapter 17 Music Education and the Prix de Rome
- Part IV Musical Life: Infrastructure and Earning a Living
- Part V The Music of Debussy’s Time
- Part VI Performers, Reception, and Posterity
- Recommendations for Further Reading and Research
- Index
Summary
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 - 158Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024