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[MUSIC]. DEBUSSY, Claude Achille (1862-1918). Two autograph envelopes addressed to Pierre Louÿs ("Monsieur Pierre Louÿs"). 12mo, both on pale grey stationery, one originally addressed to Louÿs in Cairo, Egypt, the address crossed through and corrected in a different hand to read "147 B[oulevar]d Malherbes, Paris."
Debussy corresponded regularly during the 1890s and early twentieth century with Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), a writer of the Parnassian School, mainly concerning opera-related projects and issues. An exponent of musical impressionism, Debussy produced a body of orchestral and piano works unusually independent of traditional norms and developing a new fluidity of form, and new nuances of mood and expression. His Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894) is generally regarded as an important step on the road to the modernist aesthetic in music.
Debussy corresponded regularly during the 1890s and early twentieth century with Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), a writer of the Parnassian School, mainly concerning opera-related projects and issues. An exponent of musical impressionism, Debussy produced a body of orchestral and piano works unusually independent of traditional norms and developing a new fluidity of form, and new nuances of mood and expression. His Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (1894) is generally regarded as an important step on the road to the modernist aesthetic in music.