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Julian Anderson – Dialogues on Listening, Composing and Culture

Julian Anderson and Christopher Dingle

Boydell Press 978-1-783-27498-7 472pp (hb) £45

It’s striking that the ‘Prelude’ of this illuminating book of dialogues with Julian Anderson begins with him contemplating what he doesn’t know about Debussy’s , and therefore finds most compelling about it. As quickly becomes clear, his knowledge about this and a vast amount of music and more is profound. Yet it’s his intellectual curiosity and subtlety of thought – often at

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