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Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship.(Book review)

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Debussy's Letters to Inghelbrecht: The Story of a Musical Friendship. Annotated by Margaret Cobb, translated by Richard Miller. (Eastman Studies in Music.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2005. [xix, 113 p. ISBN 1-580-46174-3. $65.] Illustrations, appendices, index, discography, bibliography.

Le martyre de Saint Sebastien brought Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht into Debussy's orbit. Inghelbrecht was appointed chorus master for the premiere in 1911 and he subsequently prepared an orchestral version of the work in close collaboration with Debussy, which Inghelbrecht conducted on 14 and 17 June 1912 (p. 4). This was the year that witnessed the beginning of a ...

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