Regarding Faur? , the result of a 1995 conference on Faur?'s important contribution to classical music, was written by Tom Gordon, artistic director the Ensemble Musica Nova and a professor in the Department of music at Bishop's University in Quebec. Also included are contributions from some of the world's most renowned Faur? scholars including Jean-Michel Nectous, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips, and Steven Huebner. With a lifetime that spanned the developments of Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, the great French composer Gabriel-Urbain Faur? (1845-1924) lived during one of the most interesting periods in music history, yet steered a course uniquely his own. Exploring the composer's role as an educator, critic, composer, and advocate for French music, Regarding Faur? is critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary in its approach to understanding Faur?'s prodigious works and life. His numerous compositions include more than 100 songs (known as 'melodie', or French art songs); dozens of solo piano works (nocturnes, barcarellos, impromptus); an opera; and religious choral works, which included another of his best known pieces Messe de Requim . Faur?'s music was unique in that he combined the clarity, balance, and precision of classical form with a wholeheartedly romantic spirit. Even though he was well aware of the trends of his time, he remained steadfastly loyal to his own musical ideals, charting a steady, personal evolution over a half century of compositional output. It wasn't until the end of his life that Faur? began to receive the recognition he deserved. In 1896, he was appointed professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1905, at the age of 60, Faur? became the director of the Paris Conservatoire. His fifteen years of service there brought many radical changes as he sought to support the new trends in music, while at the same time providing his students with a firm foundation in music fundamentals and history. Regarding Faur? explores all of the great composer's oeuvre and sheds new light on many of his lesser known accomplishments. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of classical music and a genius whose achievements are just coming to light.
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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, December 2000
–Notes, December 2000
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In the summer of 1848 when Gabriel Faure was just a child of three, the composer Edouard Lalo - himself only twenty-five at the time - came up with the idea of founding a nation-wide, democratic musical association, the Association des artistes musiciens, for the purpose of "performing or having performed, as well as publishing, every musical composition which an elected jury would deem truly worthy of the art." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
compositional nuances, modal suggestion, auxiliary cadences, main melodic note, bow contest, third scale degree, monde musical, tonal implication, fourth scale degree, tonal focus, critique musicale, piano quartet, artistic salons, music salons, pour piano, modal elements, tonic harmony, sonata form, dominant harmony, musical life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jean-Michel Nectoux, New York, Claire Croiza, Charles Koechlin, Pierre Lalo, Cambridge University Press, First Violin Sonata, Richard Wagner, Robert Orledge, Les Berceaux, Marcel Proust, Free Composition, First World War, Heinrich Schenker, Maurice Ravel, Second Violin Sonata, Alphonse Leduc, First Piano Quintet, Henri Duparc, Roger Nichols, Second Piano Quintet, Ernest Chausson, Jean Marnold, Leconte de Lisle, Princesse de Polignac New!
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In the summer of 1848 when Gabriel Faure was just a child of three, the composer Edouard Lalo - himself only twenty-five at the time - came up with the idea of founding a nation-wide, democratic musical association, the Association des artistes musiciens, for the purpose of "performing or having performed, as well as publishing, every musical composition which an elected jury would deem truly worthy of the art." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
compositional nuances, modal suggestion, auxiliary cadences, main melodic note, bow contest, third scale degree, monde musical, tonal implication, fourth scale degree, tonal focus, critique musicale, piano quartet, artistic salons, music salons, pour piano, modal elements, tonic harmony, sonata form, dominant harmony, musical life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jean-Michel Nectoux, New York, Claire Croiza, Charles Koechlin, Pierre Lalo, Cambridge University Press, First Violin Sonata, Richard Wagner, Robert Orledge, Les Berceaux, Marcel Proust, Free Composition, First World War, Heinrich Schenker, Maurice Ravel, Second Violin Sonata, Alphonse Leduc, First Piano Quintet, Henri Duparc, Roger Nichols, Second Piano Quintet, Ernest Chausson, Jean Marnold, Leconte de Lisle, Princesse de Polignac New!
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- Free Composition (Der freie Satz) v. 1 & 2 by Heinrich Schenker on 5 pages
- Ein Heldenleben: Tone Poem for Orchestra, Op. 40 (Dover Miniature Music Scores) by Richard Strauss on page 26, page 29, and page 33
- Don Giovanni in Full Score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on page 24, page 29, and page 32
- Nineteenth-Century Music (California Studies in 19th-Century Music) by Carl Dahlhaus on page 80, page 91, and page 94
- Tristan and Isolde: English National Opera Guide 6 (English National Opera Guides) by Richard Wagner on page 25, page 279, and page 383
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