Debussy - Man and Artist

Suggested book: ''Debussy - Man and Artist'' by Oscar Thompson 

Excerpt: ''How fantastic were the colors and patterns of the new music that greeted the dawn of the twentieth century in Europe! It was a music that seemed to the listener at times like a mere drift of sound that stunned the senses, at times like the unearthly flower of a world yet undiscovered. The orchestra might have been a bed of exotic blooms in the garden of dreams. The strange landscape of sound was perceived rather than heard, the listener quivered as to the blows of some great bell sunk in the ocean of ineffable pleasure, where reality and its perception were fused into each other.''

You can buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Debussy-Man-Artist-Oscar-Thompson/dp/B000H1AA2A

SK