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Afternoon of a Faun: How Debussy Created a New Music for the Modern World

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“Telling the story of an important, sympathetic public figure is often difficult for the biographer at the inevitable turning point: the ampersand between rise and fall. The greatest successes are in the pages at the left. The pages on the right may be strewn with mishaps, unfinished projects, marital problems, sadness, illness, and end notes. Even when those pages also offer modest joys and major triumphs, as they did for Debussy, the reader knows how the story ends.”

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