| Series |
Musicology book series ; v. 19
Musicology (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 19. ^A174694
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| Contents |
Introduction. Rearguard or avant-garde? / Tom Gordon -- Context and criticism. Fauré and the salons / Cécile Tardif -- Gabriel Fauré, music critic for Le Figaro / Nicole Labelle -- The triumph of genre: Fauré's chamber music through the looking glass of music criticism / Michel Duchesneau -- A view of the French chamber music "Renaissance" from Parnassus / Katherine Richards -- Mentor and metier. Fauré at the Conservatoire: critical assessments of the years 1896-1920 / Gail Hilson Woldu -- Camille Saint-Saëns: Fauré's mentor / Sabina Teller Ratner -- Analytical approaches. The organic nature of sonata form in Fauré / Edward R. Phillips -- Allusion in the music of Gabriel Fauré / James W. Sobaskie -- Ulysse revealed / Steven Huebner -- Fauré's prelude to La Passion (1890): a re-examination of a forgotten score / Sylvia Kahan -- Les Melodies. Mort exquise: representations of ecstasy in the songs of Duparc and Fauré / Stacy Kay Moore -- Fauré's religion and La Chanson d'Ève / Carlo Caballero -- A voyage of discovery into Fauré's song cycle Mirages / Robert N. Orledge -- Fauré: voice, style and vocality / Jean-Michel Nectoux. |
| Abstract |
This book addresses pivotal French composer Gabriel Faure's rightful place in an epoch where fin-de-siecle France set the scene for many of music's most startling revolutions. The volume explores numerous aspects of the composer and his world: Faure's role as educator, critic, advocate for French music and composer. Critical, analytical and interdisciplinary approaches are brought to bear on Faure's chamber music, his opera and especially his rich repertoire of melodies. Was Faure, best known in his lifetime as organist, pedagogue and salon attraction, the arriere-gardiste that many of his most famous works have continued to suggest? Or should his neglected and often enigmatic compositions of the early twentieth century dictate for him a position in the avant-garde of his celebrated proteges, Debussy and Ravel? This book is the result of a 1995 conference that brought together both young and established scholars from across Europe and North America. Among the contributors to this book are many of the foremost scholars of Faure, including Jean-Michel Nectoux, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips and Steven Huebner. |
| General note | Papers from the conference "Gabriel Fauré: His Poets and His Critics" at Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Québec, May 18-21, 1995. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-409) and index. |
| Language | Some papers translated from French. |
| ISBN | 1138984868 |
| ISBN | 9781138984868 |
