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Debussy’s letter to Inghelbrecht, 17 November 1913.
Debussy’s Letters to
Inghelbrecht
The Story of a Musical
Friendship

Annotated by

MARGARET G. COBB

Translations by
RICHARD MILLER

UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER PRESS

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[Correspondence. Selections]
Debussy’s letters to Inghelbrecht : the story of a musical friendship /
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p. cm. – (Eastman studies in music, ISSN 1071–9989 ; v. 30)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN 1–58046–174–3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Debussy, Claude, 1862–1918–Correspondence. 2. Inghelbrecht, D. E.
(Désiré Emile), 1880–1965–Correspondence. 3.
Composers–France–Correspondence. 4. Conductors
(Music)–France–Correspondence. I. Inghelbrecht, D. E. (Désiré Emile),
1880–1965. II. Cobb, Margaret G. III. Title. IV. Series.
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 In memory of
Mme D. E. Inghelbrecht
 Contents
List of Letters xi

List of Illustrations xiii

Preface xv

Acknowledgments xxi

D. E. Inghelbrecht: A Biography 1

Letters from Debussy to Inghelbrecht 9

Appendix A: Letter from Inghelbrecht to Debussy 93

Appendix B: Letters from Inghelbrecht to d’Annunzio 101

Appendix C: Letters from Chouchou Debussy

to Inghelbrecht 109

Biographies 115

Bibliography 121

Discography 125

Index 129
 Letters

Letters from Debussy to Inghelbrecht

Letter I Paris, 22 May 1912 10
Letter II Paris, 2 June 1912 14
Letter III Paris, 5 June 1912 16
Letter IV Paris, 12 June 1912 Pneumatique 18
Letter V Paris, 12 June 1912 Pneumatique 20
Letter VI Paris, 15 June 1912 22
Letter VII Paris, 15 June 1913 24
Letter VIII Paris, 15 September 1913 28
Letter IX Paris, 30 September 1913 32
Letter X Paris, 10 October 1913 Pneumatique 34
Letter XI Paris, 9 November 1913 36
Letter XII Paris, 17 November 1913 40
Letter XIII Paris, 19 November 1913 42
Postcard I Hannover, 16 December 1913 44
Letter XIV Paris, 18 January 1914 46
Letter XV Paris, 24 February 1914 Pneumatique 48
Letter XVI Paris, 18 August 1914 50
Letter XVII Paris, 10 January 1914 Pneumatique 54
Letter XVIII Paris, 26 March 1915 Pneumatique 58
Letter XIX Paris, 3 June 1915 60
Letter XX Paris, 23 June 1915 64
Letter XXI Pourville, 28 July 1915 68
Postcard II Pourville, 26 August 1915 72
Letter XXII Pourville, 20 September 1915 74
Letter XXIII Pourville, 9 October 1915 78
Letter XXIV Paris, 1 February 1916 80
Letter XXV Paris, 27 July 1916 82
Letter XXVI Paris, 10 September 1916 84
Postcard III Arcachon, 15 September 1916 86
Postcard IV Arcachon, 21 September 1916 88
Letter XXVII St Jean de Luz [July 1917] 90
xii LETTERS

Appendix A
Letter from Inghelbrecht to Debussy
Paris, 30 August 1917 96

Appendix B
Letters from Inghelbrecht to d’Annunzio
Letter I [Paris], 2 June 1912 104
Letter II [Paris], 11 June 1912 106

Appendix C
Letters from Chouchou Debussy to Inghelbrecht
Letter I Paris, 26 May 1913 110
Letter II Paris, 19 January 1914 112
 Illustrations

Debussy’s letter to Inghelbrecht, 17 November 1913

Frontispiece

After page 92:

Figure
1. Claude Debussy in 1909
2. D. E. Inghelbrecht, ca. 1908
3. Program for Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, 21 May 1911
4. Inghelbrecht rehearsing with Ninon Vallin for her role in
Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien
5. Inghelbrecht conducts in 1913
6. Debussy’s letter to Inghelbrecht, 24 February 1914
7. The artist Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, ca. 1920
8. Steinlen’s drawing of Debussy for Inghelbrecht’s concert
of 31 January 1913
9. Emmanuel Chabrier, 1882
10. Opening bars of Chabrier’s La Sulamite and Debussy’s
La Damoiselle élue
11. Modest Musorgsky, ca. 1875
12. Title page of Musorgsky’s Nursery
13. Title page of Debussy’s Children’s Corner
14. Title page of Inghelbrecht’s La Nursery
15. Inghelbrecht conducts the Orchestre Nationale 1939
 Preface
The story of how I came to write this book and own these let-
ters from Debussy to Inghelbrecht is the result of three chance
encounters I had in Paris. The first came in 1925, when I spent
the winter in school in Paris. There I had piano lessons with
Henri Etlin, who, I later learned, had won a Premier Prix at
the Conservatoire in 1907. He began my lessons with the
usual Czerny et al. compositions and then started me on some
of the Debussy Préludes. I liked these so much that I asked to
study only Debussy that whole winter. He agreed and seemed
quite happy at my request.
On returning home, I continued my piano lessons with a
Russian teacher who encouraged me to work on Debussy.
Then came marriage, two children, and a job as freelance
copy-editor for a large publishing house, a position I held for
thirty-two years. There was then no longer time for piano les-
sons. During my last five years of copy-editing, while working
on a medical dictionary, I began to think that I would like to
write a book myself. As my interest in Debussy had never
waned, and I had learned about him and his music, especially
his songs, I thought that this was an area that I could explore.
I had always been interested in French poetry, so here was my
link to Debussy. Therefore, I decided that I would go to Paris
for my annual vacations and do some work on Debussy and his
songs.
My first trip to Paris for this project was in 1967. I started
my work in the Music Department of the Bibliothèque
nationale de France, 2 rue Louvois. There I met François
Lesure, who was the head of that department and was soon to
become well known as a Debussy specialist. He helped me in
my work and also encouraged me in my project of a possible
book. I was also able to work in the beautiful reading room of
the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 58 rue de Richelieu.
There I found the editions of the books of poems that Debussy
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