Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1017/9781787442528.005
David A Grayson
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1017/9781787442528.020
Caroline Rae
Marius-Francois Gaillard (1900-73) has long been a mere footnote in French music of the interwar years, remembered if at all for conducting the Paris premiere of Varese’s Integrales (revised version) in 1929. Yet, he first gained attention as a pianist during the First World War, becoming known for his Debussy performances at the Salle Gaveau concerts for the ‘blesses de la guerre’. In 1920, he became the first pianist to perform the (then) complete piano works of Debussy, a feat he repeated at the Theâtre des Champs-Elysees in March 1922, attracting the unreserved praise of Debussy’s widow Emma Bardac. In 1928, he embarked on a series of Debussy recordings for Disques Odeon as well as piano rolls for Pleyela. This essay explores the legacy of Gaillard’s Debussy recordings, the largest by any pianist until after World War Two, to propose that had his reputation not been tarnished by the negative and highly politicised criticism at the time of his completion of Debussy’s Ode a la France, the quality of his pianistic achievement would merit a position among the pantheon of great twentieth-century French pianists.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1017/9781787442528.021
Barbara L. Kelly
{"title":"Fashioning Early Debussy in Interwar France","authors":"Barbara L. Kelly","doi":"10.1017/9781787442528.021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442528.021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388074,"journal":{"name":"Debussy's Resonance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133000755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1017/9781787442528.007
François de Médicis
{"title":"Composing after Wagner: The Music of Bruneau and Debussy, 1890–1902","authors":"François de Médicis","doi":"10.1017/9781787442528.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442528.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388074,"journal":{"name":"Debussy's Resonance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133774276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1017/9781787442528.014
Julian Johnson
{"title":"Vertige!: Debussy, Mallarmé, and the Edge of Language","authors":"Julian Johnson","doi":"10.1017/9781787442528.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442528.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388074,"journal":{"name":"Debussy's Resonance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134233116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.1017/9781787442528.003
Roy Howat
{"title":"The Œuvres complètes de Claude Debussy Thirty Years On","authors":"Roy Howat","doi":"10.1017/9781787442528.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781787442528.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":388074,"journal":{"name":"Debussy's Resonance","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133852330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}