Composers Remembered
2 total works
A melange of accounts of Maurice Ravel and his music, by people who knew him, including Stravinsky, Cocteau, Colette, Poulenc and Manuel de Falla. The topics discussed include Ravel's philosophy of orchestration, his passion for curries, his mental illness and his death.
One of an absorbing series of anthologies of personal recollections and reminiscences of great composers, Roger Nichols's book gathers together the testimonies of some sixty people - relatives, friends and fellow musicians - who knew Debussy. Taken from letters, diaries and memoirs, the pieces add up to what is almost a new biography of the French composer, a vivid portrait of a strange and enigmatic genius.