FeaturesThere is a subtle temptation which leads a man on from mere disinterested craftsmanship, through a positive delight in his own virtuosity, to the exquisite private satisfaction of deceiving the elect. The exposure of de Ternant began in 1947 with a letter to the editor of Music & Letters: Some years ago, when I was working on my books on Debussy, I was in correspondence with Andrew de Ternant. He had published articles in The Musical Times telling most interesting and minutely detailed stories about Debussy. The author was the eminent French musicologist Léon Vallas (1879–1956), an early biographer of both Claude Debussy and César Franck. Twenty years before, while researching his biography of Debussy, Vallas had come acro ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 20 June 2002, on page 41 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Inventing-Claude-Debussy-1943
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