Jean-Michel Nectoux

Gabriel Faur

A Musical Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jean-Michel Nectoux's richly-illustrated biography of Gabriel Faure traces his life in the world of Saint-Saens, Flaubert, Verlaine, Ravel Debussy and Proust, and considers his music, with particular emphasis on his adjustments to the musical language of the twentieth century and the formation of his late style. Works in all genres are discussed in detail.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 676
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1016g
• ISBN-13: 9780521616959
• ISBN-10: 0521616956
• Artikelnr.: 21466787

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Prelude
Acknowledgements
1. Gradus ad Parnassum
2. Scenes from provincial life
3. Friends and lovers
4. Fauré as pianist and organist
5. Roses for Des Esseintes: from the romance to the mélodie
6. Sotto voce: chamber music I
7. Choral music
8. The theatre I: operatic projects and incidental music
9. The Verlaine years: song cycles and further operatic projects
10. The theatre II: Prométhée
11. Works and days
12. Pomp and circumstance
13. Towards the twentieth century
14. The theatre III: Pénélope, Masques et Bergamasques
15. Words and music: the van Lerberghe years
16. The late piano works
17. Light and shade: chamber music II
18. Fauré 'modern style'
19. Ultima verba
20. Inner voices
Chronology
Chronological catalogue of Fauré's works
Bibliography
Index.