Faure Studies

Description

Faure Studies showcases new research from leading scholars in the United States, United Kingdom, and France into this influential French composer of the fin de siecle. This book features interpretations of individual works and musical analyses, as well as studies of compositional pedagogy, social history, and aesthetics. Accessible to a wide range of readers, this volume also provides a valuable overview of Faure research from the composer's lifetime to the present. As part of Cambridge Composer Studies, Faure Studies adds momentum to new research into this major composer, which includes recently launched critical editions of his music.

Carlo Caballero is Associate Professor of Music at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of Faurei and French Musical Aesthetics and has published essays in Victorian Studies, 19th-Century Music, The Journal of the American Musicological Society, and many edited collections. His current projects include studies of social continuities in French music from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, the historiography of nineteenth-century ballet, and a second monograph on Faurei. Stephen Rumph is Associate Professor of Music History at the University of Washington. He is the author of The Faure Song Cycles (forthcoming). Other publications include Beethoven After Napoleon (2004) and Mozart and Enlightenment Semiotics (2011) and articles in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Journal of the Royal Music Association, 19th-Century Music, and other periodicals. In 2015 he co-organized the international conference 'Effable and Ineffable: Gabriel Faure and the Limits of Criticism'.