The Faure Song Cycles: Poetry and Music, 1861-1921

by Stephen Rumph

Gabriel Faur 's m lodies offer an inexhaustible variety of style and expression that have made them the foundation of the French art song repertoire. During the second half of his long career, Faur composed all but a handful of his songs within six carefully integrated cycles. Faur moved systematically through his poetic contemporaries, exhausting Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal before immersing himself in the Parnassian poets. He...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520297628
• ISBN13: 9780520297623
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"