Introduction; 1. The question of sincerity; 2. Innovation, tradition; 3. Originality, influence, and self-renewal; 4. Homogeneity: meanings, risks, and consequences; 5. Fauré's religion: ideas and music; 6. Fauré the elusive.
A wide-ranging study of Fauré and his contemporaries.
Carlo Caballero is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Colorado.
'The wealth of music examples he quotes is beautifully printed. His research is impeccable. An enlightening book.' James Harding, BBC Music Magazine 'Unified by recurring ideas and methodology as useful as the music itself. It holds a mirror to the composer's meticulous, art-concealing art and should remain a landmark in French cultural studies for a long time to come.' Times Literary Supplement '... stimulating ... it is hard to imagine that this finely researched, well produced and wide ranging study will not significantly enrich the reader's experience of Faure's music. ... this book broadens the perspective not only laterally, as it were, exploring the influences, ethics and perspectives that shaped Faure's own environment, but upwards, chronologically speaking, taking in the heritage of the composer and his cultural milieu as it affected such non-Faurean figures as Stravinsky, Varese, Messiaen and particularly Boulez.' Piano
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