Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score

by Lawrence Gilman

This book was classic literature published more than two centuries ago and has been out of print for decades. We at Classical Prints have taken the initiative to preserve this book and bring it back to the shelf once again to preserve the legacy and promote this timeless classic print.

50 pages, Paperback

First published June 22, 2007

About the author

Lawrence Gilman was a U.S. author and music critic. He earned later notoriety for his scathing negative reviews of compositions that later became known as classics. He described George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, for example, as trite, feeble, conventional, vapid, fussy, futile, lifeless, stale, derivative and inexpressive.

Reviews

[Greg McConeghy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This study of Pelleas was written in 1907, only five years after the premiere in Paris and just before it was to be premiered at The Metropolitan Opera in New York.