{"product_id":"harvey-lee-snyder-afternoon-of-a-faun-2015-hardback","title":"Harvey Lee Snyder: Afternoon of a Faun [2015] hardback","description":"Claude Debussy was the father of the modern era in classical music. His innovations liberated Stravinsky  Schoenberg  and Bartik 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 \"poque  his life is little known to all but scholars; and of his considerable musical output  only EPrelude to the Afternoon of a FaunE  ELa merE  and EClair de luneE are widely known.THHarvey 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. Here is the story of a poor  unschooled Parisian boy swept by odd coincidences to the Paris Conservatory at age ten. Here is a brilliant man struggling to invent a tonal language capable of expressing his unique musical vision  finding inspiration not in Bach and Beethoven but in Mallarm (c)'s poetry and the paintings of Whistler and Turner; a man determined to end two centuries of Germanic domination of European music. Here is a reclusive  gentle man whose misguided love affairs ended in scandal and scorn. His hard work failed to end decades of poverty and debt  but when he died in 1918  he was and has remained the foremost French composer of the twentieth century.","brand":"Snyder, Harvey Lee","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":46636021350739,"sku":"9781574674491","price":36.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/snyder-harvey-lee-harvey-lee-snyder-afternoon-of-a-faun-2015-hardback-9781574674491-60673252458835.jpg?v=1736315592","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/harvey-lee-snyder-afternoon-of-a-faun-2015-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}