Gabriel Fauré Influences and Influence

Presents Fauré not as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers and the first member of a French musical 'trinity', with Debussy and Ravel.

A composition professor at the Paris Conservatoire since 1896, and its director from 1906 to 1920, Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was said to have created no school as Cesar Franck had before him, encouraging originality among his students rather than emulation. This collection portrays Fauré, influenced by Wolfgang Mozart, Fryderyk Chopin, and Felix Mendelssohn, plus the poetry of Charles Baudelaire and Paul Verlaine, as an early Modernist who provided a reference point for Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Francis Poulenc. Casting a wide net, it explores Fauré's influence on his younger contemporaries Lili Boulanger and Frederick Delius, as well as on the later twentieth-century American composers Aaron Copland, Walter Arlen, Robert Helps, and Ned Rorem. Fauré no longer appears as a solitary figure, but part of a vibrant continuum of nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, and the first member of a French musical 'trinity' that included Debussy and Ravel.

List of contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Forward
Jean-Pierre Bartoli

Prelude
James William Sobaskie


PART I: SOURCES

1. Dancing with Mozart on the Isle of Cythera: Fauré's Masques et Bergamasques
Marjorie Hirsch

2. Gabriel Fauré and the Traditions of Wordless Song
Jonathan Kregor

3. Fauré's Mendelssohn
Emily Shyr and R. Larry Todd

4. Gabriel Fauré's Allusive Aesthetic
James William Sobaskie

5. Hommage à Chopin: Fauré's Quatrième Nocturne
James William Sobaskie

6. Fantasy and Feminism: Chopin's Spirit in Fauré's Ballade
Alison Hood


PART II: RESONANCES

7. Gateway Music: Fauré's Pavane
James William Sobaskie

8. A composition lesson? Fauré's Prélude en fa majeur
James William Sobaskie

9. Lives and Afterlives: Contextualizing Fauré's Dolly Suite
Joe Davies

10. Fauré and Ravel: Threads of Musical Interaction
Roy Howat

11. A Pair of Parisian Laments: Fauré's and Delius's Settings of Verlaine
Taylor Greer

12. Fauréan Correspondances: Motivic Practice and Octatonicism in Lili Boulanger's Clairie¿res dans le ciel
Andrew Pau


PART III: RESPONSES

13. Influence, Individuality, and Intertextuality in the Hommage à Gabriel Fauré
Christopher Moore

14. Honouring Fauré: Influence as Inspiration in the Music of American Composers
Heather de Savage

15 . With a Blush of Surprise I Realize What I've been Missing': Gabriel Fauré's Influence on Ned Rorem's Songs
Heather de Savage

16. Inventing and Elevating the Musical 'Trinity': Frenchness and New Media in the Modern French Empire
Jann Pasler


Postlude
James William Sobaskie

Select Bibliography

Index

Index of Works by Gabriel Fauré

About the author

James William Sobaskie

Product details

• Assisted by: James William Sobaskie (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 01.02.2026
• EAN: 9781837651658
• ISBN: 978-1-83765-165-8
• No. of pages: 448
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs