Leon Vallas — Debussy (1862-1918)

Paris, Librairie Plon, 1926. Leather. A very smart copy of Vallas's biography of Claude Debussy, in the original French language. French language. A biography of French composer, Claude Debussy, considered by some to be the first Impressionist composer despite his rejection of the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and was almost forty years old when he achieved international fame in 1902 with the only opera he completed "Pelleas et Melisande." Written by Leon Vallas, a French musicologist. Bound in contemporary half morocco with blue cloth boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear and minor fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .