Gabriel Fauré : the Songs and their Poets / Graham Johnson ; with translations of the song texts by Richard Stokes.
"The career of Gabriel Faur?s a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French m?die is contained within these parameters. In the 1860s Faur?the lifelong prot? of Camille Saint-Sa?, was a suavely precocious student; he was part of Pau...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
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2016.
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| Series: | Research studies (Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, England))
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1 An Indifference to Success
- chapter 2 Second Empire and First Songs / Victor Hugo
- chapter 3 War and Peace on Parnassus / Theophile Gautier, Charles Marie Rene Leconte de Lisle, Charles Baudelaire
- chapter 4 Chez Mme P. Viardot-Garcia / Louis Pomey
- chapter 5 1878, A Transitional Year of Song / Paul de Choudens, Charles Grandmougin
- chapter 6 Bachelor and Husband
- The Silvestre Years / Armand Silvestre
- chapter 7 Crisis and Decadence
- chapter 8 Faure and Paul Verlaine (I)
- chapter 9 Faure and Paul Verlaine (II)
- chapter 10 Crossing the Divide
- Towards the Late Style / Moliere, Albert Samain, Maurice Maeterlinck, Catulle Mendes
- chapter 11 Interlude: The Silent G ift / Jean Dominique, Henri de Regnier
- chapter 12 Faure and Charles Van Lerberghe (I)
- chapter 13 Faure and Charles Van Lerberghe (II)
- chapter 4 teen: Mirages and Horizons
- chapter 15 Some Notes on the Performance of Faures Songs
- chapter 6 teen: The Pianists Workshop (wherein Singers are Always Welcome)