This wide-ranging study of Gabriel Faur� and his contemporaries reclaims aesthetic categories crucial to French musical life in the early twentieth century. Its interrelated chapters treat the topics of sincerity, originality, novelty, self-renewal, homogeneity and religious belief in relation to Faur�'s music and ideas. Taking a broad view of cultural life during the composer's lifetime and beyond, the book moves between specific details in Faur�'s music and related critical, literary and philosophical issues, ...
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This wide-ranging study of Gabriel Faur� and his contemporaries reclaims aesthetic categories crucial to French musical life in the early twentieth century. Its interrelated chapters treat the topics of sincerity, originality, novelty, self-renewal, homogeneity and religious belief in relation to Faur�'s music and ideas. Taking a broad view of cultural life during the composer's lifetime and beyond, the book moves between specific details in Faur�'s music and related critical, literary and philosophical issues, ranging from Gounod to Boulez and from Proust to Val�ry. Above all, the book connects abstract values to artistic choices and thus places such works as Faur�'s Requiem, La bonne chanson, La chanson d'Eve, L'horizon chim�rique, and the chamber music in a new light.
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