Gabriel Fauré : a musical life /
Jean-Michel Nectoux's important new biography of Gabriel Fauré is the most comprehensive study yet of this central figure of fin de siecle France. It traces the composer's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked: the world also of Saint-Saens, Flaubert, Verlaine, Ra...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Cambridge [England] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1991
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| Summary: | Jean-Michel Nectoux's important new biography of Gabriel Fauré is the most comprehensive study yet of this central figure of fin de siecle France. It traces the composer's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked: the world also of Saint-Saens, Flaubert, Verlaine, Ravel, Debussy and Proust. A large part of the book considers Fauré's music, with particular emphasis on his adjustment to the musical language of the twentieth century and the formation of his late style. Works in all genres are discussed in detail. The book is the fruit of over twenty years' research by Nectoux, the foremost authority on Gabriel Fauré. He has read more than 5000 previously unpublished letters and has unearthed more than 120 musical manuscripts in the process of writing this definitive study. The text is richly illustrated with rare photographs from Fauré's lifetime and contains an extended chronology of the composer's life, a complete chronological listing of all his own works and a detailed bibliography Traces Faur 's life and the rich cultural milieu in which he lived and worked |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC Translation of: Gabriel Fauré : les voix du clair-obscur Translation of: Gabriel Fauré : les voix du clair-obscur |
| Physical Description: | xxv, 646 p. : ill. ; 23 cm xxv, 646 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xxv, 646 p. : ill. ; 25 cm xxv, 646 p. : ill., music ; 24 cm xxv, 646 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 24 cm xxv, 646 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Discography: p. 623-624 Discography: p.623-624 Discography: pages 623-624 Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-622) and index Includes bibliographical references (p. 593-622) and indexes Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-622) and indexes Includes bibliographical references "Chronological catalogue of Fauré's works": p. 525-558 "Chronological catologue of Faure's works": p. 526-558 |
| ISBN: | 0521235243 9780521235242 |