Fauré and French Musical Aesthetics

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Cambridge University Press, 2004 M03 11 - 348 pages
This wide-ranging study of Gabriel Fauré and his contemporaries reclaims aesthetic categories crucial to French musical life in the early twentieth century. Its interrelated chapters treat the topics of sincerity, originality, novelty, self-renewal, homogeneity and religious belief in relation to Fauré's music and ideas. Taking a broad view of cultural life during the composer's lifetime and beyond, the book moves between specific details in Fauré's music and related critical, literary and philosophical issues, ranging from Gounod to Boulez and from Proust to Valéry. Above all, the book connects abstract values to artistic choices and thus places such works as Fauré's Requiem, La bonne chanson, La chanson d'Eve, L'horizon chimérique, and the chamber music in a new light.
 

Contents

The question of sincerity
11
Innovation tradition
57
Originality influence and selfrenewal
76
Homogeneity meaning risks and consequences
126
Faures religion ideas and music
170
Faure the elusive
219
Notes
257
Bibliography
308
Index
320
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Carlo Caballero is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Colorado.

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