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Word: vasnier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...music critic of the New York Sun, paints an intimate picture. Debussy not only resembled a cat; he lived with live cats and collected porcelain cats. His living cats were always grey angoras, always named Line. His women were less uniform. To him the four most important were Mme Vasnier, wife of an aging friend, who brought him from adolescence to manhood; green-eyed Gabrielle Dupont, who lived with him while he worked on his opera, Pelleas et Melisande; Rosalie Texier (Wife No. 1), who had an unpleasant voice which finally got on his nerves; Emma Bardac (Wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Impressionist | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

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