Claude Debussy As I Knew Him and Other Writings of Arthur Hartmann

A record of a ten-year personal friendship, with letters, and insights on other contemporaries.

Arthur Hartmann (1881-1956), a celebrated violinist who performed over a thousand recitals throughout Europe and the United States, met Claude Debussy in 1908, after he had transcribed 'Il pleure dans mon coeur' for violin and piano. Their relationship developed into friendship, and in February 1914 Debussy accompanied Hartmann in a performance of three of Hartmann's transcriptions of Debussy's wo...