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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.

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Author:   James William Sobaskie (Person)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   Boydell & Brewer
ISBN:  

9781837651658

ISBN 10:   1837651655
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   10 February 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of 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

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JAMES WILLIAM SOBASKIE is Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Mississippi State University. He has published articles and essays on Fauré, as well as a critical edition of the composer's last two works, and co-edited with Joe Davies the collection Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert (Boydell Press, 2019).

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