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

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

• Afternoon of a Faun Amadeus Series Hardcover Written by Harvey Lee Snyder
• Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music
• His innovations liberated Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartók to write their iconoclastic works, and his harmonic inventions are still heard in American jazz
• Though he was among the most compelling figures of the Belle Époque, his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output, only Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, La mer, and Clair de lune are widely known
• Harvey Lee Snyder addresses this cultural neglect by presenting the composer and his music, without jargon or biographical trivia, in a richly detailed, accurate narrative that reads like a novel