Table of Contents

Introduction; 1: Context & Criticism; 1: Fauré and the Salons; 2: Gabriel Fauré: Music Critic for Le Figaro; 3: The Triumph of a Genre: Fauré's Chamber Music Through the Looking Glass of Music Criticism; 4: A View of the French Chamber Music “Renaissance” from Parnassus; 2: Mentor & Métier; 5: Fauré at the Conservatoire: Critical Assessments of the Years 1896–1920; 6: Camille Saint-Saëns: Fauré's Mentor 1; 3: Analytical Approaches; 7: The Organic Nature of Sonata Form in Fauré; 8: Allusion in The Music of Gabriel Fauré; 9: Ulysse Revealed 1; 10: Fauré's Prelude to La Passion (1890): A Re-Examination of a Forgotten Score; 4: Les Mélodies; 11: Mort Exquise: Representations of Ecstasy in the Songs of Duparc and Fauré; 12: Fauré's Religion and La Chanson d'Ève; 13: A Voyage of Discovery into Fauré's Song Cycle Mirages; 14: Fauré: Voice, Style and Vocality

About the Author

Tom Gordon

Reviews

"A collection of fourteen very fine essays...Loosley grouped into four sections..., the general sense is...of increasing richness...Regarding Fauré is an indispensable addition to any scholarly collection and a welcome contribution, not only to Fauré scholarship, but to the study of the cultural life of fin de siéle Paris." -- Notes