Gabriel Fauré: Influences and Influence
- Editor: Sobaskie, James William
Gabriel Fauré: Influences and Influence
- Editor: Sobaskie, James William
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Presents Fauré not as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers and the first member of a French musical 'trinity', with Debussy and Ravel. A composition professor at the Paris Conservatoire since 1896, and its director from 1906 to 1920, Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was said to have created no school as Cesar Franck had before him, encouraging originality among his students rather than emulation. This collection portrays Fauré, influenced by Wolfgang Mozart, Fryderyk Chopin, and Felix Mendelssohn, plus the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, as an early Modernist who provided a reference point for Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc. Casting a wide net, it explores Fauré's influence on his younger contemporaries Lili Boulanger and Frederick Delius, as well as on the later twentieth-century American composers Aaron Copland, Walter Arlen, Robert Helps, and Ned Rorem. Fauré no longer appears as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, and the first member of a French musical 'trinity' that included Debussy and Ravel.
Contents
- List of Figures List of Tables List of
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements Forward Jean-Pierre Bartoli
- Prelude James William Sobaskie
- PART I : SOURCES
- 1. Dancing with Mozart on the Isle of Cythera: Fauré's Masques et Bergamasques Marjorie Hirsch
- 2. Gabriel Fauré and the Traditions of Wordless Song Jonathan Kregor
- 3. Fauré's Mendelssohn Emily Shyr and R. Larry Todd
- 4. Gabriel Fauré's Allusive Aesthetic James William Sobaskie
- 5. Hommage à Chopin: Fauré's Quatrième Nocturne James William Sobaskie
- 6. Fantasy and Feminism: Chopin's Spirit in Fauré's Ballade Alison Hood
- PART II : RESONANCES
- 7. Gateway Music: Fauré's Pavane James William Sobaskie
- 8. A composition lesson? Fauré's Prélude en fa majeur James William Sobaskie
- 9. Lives and Afterlives: Contextualizing Fauré's Dolly Suite Joe Davies
- 10. Fauré and Ravel: Threads of Musical Interaction Roy Howat
- 11. A Pair of Parisian Laments: Fauré's and Delius's Settings of Verlaine Taylor Greer
- 12. Fauréan Correspondances: Motivic Practice and Octatonicism in Lili Boulanger's Clairières dans le ciel Andrew Pau
- PART III : RESPONSES
- 13. Influence, Individuality, and Intertextuality in the Hommage à Gabriel Fauré Christopher Moore
- 14. Honouring Fauré: Influence as Inspiration in the Music of American Composers Heather de Savage 15 . With a Blush of Surprise I Realize What I've been Missing': Gabriel Fauré's Influence on Ned Rorem's Songs Heather de Savage
- 16. Inventing and Elevating the Musical 'Trinity': Frenchness and New Media in the Modern French Empire Jann Pasler Postlude James William Sobaskie Select
- Bibliography
- Index
- Index of Works by Gabriel Fauré
