<p>Offers brief profiles of seven French composers, and analyzes each one's major works</p>

The New Grove Twentieth-Century French Masters: Faure Debussy Satie Ravel Poulenc Messiaen Boulez

Biographies & Memoirs

Nectoux, Jean-Michel

Arts & Literature

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The New Grove Twentieth-Century French Masters: Faure, Debussy, Satie, Ravel, Poulenc, Messiaen, Boulez (Composer Biography Series)

NICHOLS, ROGER

Govers, Patrick

Hopkins, Gary W.

Grif

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 In the process of writing this definitive study, he read more than 5000 previously unpublished letters and unearthed more than 120 musical manuscripts.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.

Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life

Cambridge University Press

<p>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 In the process of writing this definitive study, he read more than 5000 previously unpublished letters and unearthed more than 120 musical manuscripts.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.</p>

This English edition of Jean-Michel Nectoux’s collection of the complete correspondence of Saint-SaÃ«ns and Fauré features some 130 letters spanning the period from 1862 to 1920. Immensely significant to the study of French music, these letters throw light upon one of the longest-surviving friendships between two composers in the history of music. They also contain frank exchanges of views on such topics as the music of Wagner, Berlioz, Debussy, Franck and others; the state of musical education in France; and other important artistic figures of fin de siècle Paris including Puvis de Chavannes, Rodin and Fremiet. Barrie Jones’s skilful translation of this important body of correspondence captures the often playful, casual, but always stimulating language of both composers. These letters are frequently the sole source for dating certain compositions or discovering projects that were started but then abandoned. They constitute a primary source for appreciation of Saint-SaÃ«ns’s and Fauré’s compositions, opinions and working practices.

The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saëns and Gabriel Fauré: Sixty Years of Friendship

Routledge

Une famille d'artistes en 1900, les Saint-Marceaux (Les dossiers du Musée d'Orsay) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Distribution, Seuil

Nectoux: Gabriel Fauré - Catalogue of works

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