Book contents
- Fauré Studies
- Cambridge Composer Studies
- Fauré Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Looking Back on a Journey
- 1 Patrons and Society
- 2 Keys to the Ineffable in Fauré
- 3 Fauré as Student and Teacher of Harmony
- 4 Romancing the mélodie, or Generic Play in the Early Hugo Settings
- 5 Lux aeterna
- 6 From Homer’s Banquet to Fauchois’ Feast
- 7 Orchestral Melody in Pénélope
- 8 Fauré the Practical Interpreter
- 9 Fauré, Orientalism, and Le voile du bonheur
- 10 Jankélévitch, Fauré, and the Thirteenth Nocturne
- Index
1 - Patrons and Society
Gabriel Fauré’s “Other” Career in the Paris and London Music Salons
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- Fauré Studies
- Cambridge Composer Studies
- Fauré Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Music Examples
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Looking Back on a Journey
- 1 Patrons and Society
- 2 Keys to the Ineffable in Fauré
- 3 Fauré as Student and Teacher of Harmony
- 4 Romancing the mélodie, or Generic Play in the Early Hugo Settings
- 5 Lux aeterna
- 6 From Homer’s Banquet to Fauchois’ Feast
- 7 Orchestral Melody in Pénélope
- 8 Fauré the Practical Interpreter
- 9 Fauré, Orientalism, and Le voile du bonheur
- 10 Jankélévitch, Fauré, and the Thirteenth Nocturne
- Index
Summary
No [such] reward could cause more rejoicing in the hearts of musicians, for no one is more purely musical than Fauré, no one is imbued with more poetry – so much so that his delightful Lieder have earned him the appellation of the French Schumann.
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- Fauré Studies , pp. 13 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021