The Guide provides basic facts about Gabriel Faure's life and works. It is a compact source of information concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his compositions, and his influence as a musician and teacher. The various sections of this work present a chronology of Faure's life (with reference to the principal biographies), a list of his writings and compositions, a descriptive list of autograph manuscripts indicating their locations in libraries and private collections, an annotated bibliography of articles, books and theses divided into the following categories: biography and general commentary; correspondence; discussions of individual genres and works. The afterward offers suggestions for further research. An index is provided.
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Musicians casually acquainted with Fauré will be strick by the range of material it encompasses. Fauré scholars will be surprised by the number of items they never knew existed, and all will be astonished by the amount of research this book represents.
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Gabriel Urban Faure was born 12 May 1845, in Pamiers in the south of France, and although Paris was his home the age of nine, he maintained contact with his family and the Ariege region throughput his life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cover bifolium, manuscript soiled, versi blank, single folia, second violoncello, first violoncello, including copyright date, inner title page, separate folia, usual paper, paper unidentified, numerous autograph corrections, manuscript worn, bifolium containing, courrier musical, major chamber works, mercure musical, harmonic usage, unidentified paper, bonne chanson, monde musical, second viola, jardin clos, instrument designation, salon composer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Alfred Cortot, Gabriel Faure, Jean-Michel Nectoux, Ave Maria, Nadia Boulanger, Peter Jost, Agnus Dei, Fonds Conservatoire, First Violin Sonata, Tom Gordon, Charles van Lerberghe, Claude Debussy, Indiana University, Claire Croiza, Ladislas Rohozinski, Librairie de France, Oxford University Press, Louis Niedermeyer, Marguerite Long, Second Violin Sonata, Albin Michel, Leconte de Lisle, Louis Aubert, Musical Times New!
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Gabriel Urban Faure was born 12 May 1845, in Pamiers in the south of France, and although Paris was his home the age of nine, he maintained contact with his family and the Ariege region throughput his life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cover bifolium, manuscript soiled, versi blank, single folia, second violoncello, first violoncello, including copyright date, inner title page, separate folia, usual paper, paper unidentified, numerous autograph corrections, manuscript worn, bifolium containing, courrier musical, major chamber works, mercure musical, harmonic usage, unidentified paper, bonne chanson, monde musical, second viola, jardin clos, instrument designation, salon composer Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Alfred Cortot, Gabriel Faure, Jean-Michel Nectoux, Ave Maria, Nadia Boulanger, Peter Jost, Agnus Dei, Fonds Conservatoire, First Violin Sonata, Tom Gordon, Charles van Lerberghe, Claude Debussy, Indiana University, Claire Croiza, Ladislas Rohozinski, Librairie de France, Oxford University Press, Louis Niedermeyer, Marguerite Long, Second Violin Sonata, Albin Michel, Leconte de Lisle, Louis Aubert, Musical Times New!
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- Gabriel Faure (Da Capo Press music reprint series) by Emile Vuillermoz on page 115, page 175, and page 344
- New Grove Dictionary by Sadie on page 151, and page 335
- On the Sensations of Tone As a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann Von Helmholtz on page 397
- Nineteenth-Century Romanticism in Music (Prentice-Hall History of Music Series) by Rey M. Longyear on page 224
- Mademoiselle: Conversations with Nadia Boulanger by Bruno Monsaingeon on page 163
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