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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 103607781
TI  - Emma and Claude Debussy : the biography of a relationship
PY  - 2022
SN  - 1783276584 1800104049 9781800104044 9781783276585
PB  - Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press,
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Women singers
KW  - History
KW  - Debussy, Emma
KW  - Debussy, Claude,
KW  - Marriage.
KW  - Debi︠u︡si, Klod,
KW  - Debi︠u︡ssi, K.
KW  - Debi︠u︡ssi, Klod,
KW  - Debussy, Achille Claude,
KW  - Debussy, C.
KW  - Debussy, Claude
KW  - Debuxi,
KW  - Tu-pu-hsi,
KW  - Bardac, Emma
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - France.
KW  - Bro-C'hall
KW  - Fa-kuo
KW  - Fa-lan-hsi
KW  - Faguo
KW  - Falanxi
KW  - Falanxi Gongheguo
KW  - Farans
KW  - Farānsah
KW  - França
KW  - Francia (Republic)
KW  - Francija
KW  - Francja
KW  - Francland
KW  - Francuska
KW  - Franis
KW  - Franḳraykh
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Frankrig
KW  - Frankrijk
KW  - Frankrike
KW  - Frankryk
KW  - Fransa
KW  - Fransa Respublikası
KW  - Franse
KW  - Franse Republiek
KW  - Frant͡
KW  - Frant͡s Uls
KW  - Frant͡sii͡
KW  - Frantsuzskai͡a Rėspublika
KW  - Frantsyi͡
KW  - Franza
KW  - French Republic
KW  - Frencisc Cynewīse
KW  - Frenska republika
KW  - Furansu
KW  - Furansu Kyōwakoku
KW  - Gallia
KW  - Gallia (Republic)
KW  - Gallikē Dēmokratia
KW  - Hyãsia
KW  - Parancis
KW  - Peurancih
KW  - Phransiya
KW  - Pransiya
KW  - Pransya
KW  - Prantsusmaa
KW  - Pʻŭrangs
KW  - Ranska
KW  - República Francesa
KW  - Republica Franzesa
KW  - Republika Francuska
KW  - Republiḳah ha-Tsarfatit
KW  - Republikang Pranses
KW  - République française
KW  - Tsarfat
KW  - Tsorfat
KW  - Singers
KW  - Composers
KW  - Claude Debussy.
KW  - Emma Bardac.
KW  - Frenchman.
KW  - Gabriel Fauré.
KW  - Parisian milieu.
KW  - antisemitism.
KW  - biography.
KW  - financial consequences.
KW  - liaison.
KW  - marriage.
KW  - musicians.
KW  - performances.
KW  - relationship.
KW  - singer.
KW  - uncle Osiris.
KW  - wealthy Jewish banker.
KW  - wealthy.
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:103607781
AB  - The singer Emma Bardac (1862-1934) has often been presented as a woman who ensnared Claude Debussy (1862-1918) because she wanted to be associated with his fame and to live a life of luxury. Indeed, in many biographies and composer-related studies of Debussy, the only mentions that she receives are brief and derogatory. Here Emma Bardac and her relationship with the composer take centre stage. The book traces Emma's Jewish ancestry and her background, the significant role of her wealthy uncle Osiris, her marriage at seventeen to the wealthy Jewish banker Sigismond Bardac, her affair with Gabriel Fauré and her liaison with and subsequent marriage to Debussy. As Gillian Opstad shows, the pressure and stifling effects of domestic life on Debussy's attitude to his composing were considerable. The financial consequences of their partnership were disastrous, and their circle of close friends was small. Emma suffered physically and mentally from the tensions of the marriage, particularly money worries, and the possibility that Debussy was attracted to her older daughter. She considered divorce but supported him through his deepest depression and during the First World War until he succumbed to cancer in 1918. After Debussy's death, Emma felt driven both on his behalf and for financial reasons to further performances of the composer's works and provoked the annoyance of other musicians by having early compositions resurrected, completed and performed. In this engagingly written biography, Gillian Opstad brings to light little-known facts about Emma's background and family, advances new insights into her relationship with Debussy, and provides a glimpse of an early twentieth-century Parisian milieu that experienced wide-spread antisemitism.
ER  -