A Musical Life
Musical Editions | Book (softcover) |
Item no. | 554216 |
Author / Composer | Jean-Michel Nectoux |
Language | english |
Scope | 676 pages; 15.6 × 23.5 cm |
Release year | 2004 |
Publisher / Producer | Cambridge University Press |
Producer No. | 9780521616959 |
ISBN | 9780521616959 |
Jean-Michel Nectoux's important 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.
In the process of writing this definitive study, he read more than 5000 previously unpublished letters and unearthed more than 120 musical manuscripts.
The book includes several 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.
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