Book Review
Feb. 19th, 2011 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariGabriel Faure
by Jessica Duchen
This was a very straightforward biography of French composer Gabriel Faure, whose career spanned the transition from romantic to 20th century music. I am not overly familiar with his music, but what I have heard I have found interesting and attractive, so I wanted to find out more about him.
Faure started out firmly entrenched in the 19th century French romantic style, but as his career progressed, he began to explore more adventurous approaches to form and harmony. While he never adopted the kind of radical experiments styles of composers like Debussy and Stravinsky, Faure did bridge the gap between what had become traditional and what was emerging in the French musical world of his time. His biography also provided an interesting look at the way French musical life itself shifted between the end of the 19th century and into the 20th.
by Jessica Duchen
This was a very straightforward biography of French composer Gabriel Faure, whose career spanned the transition from romantic to 20th century music. I am not overly familiar with his music, but what I have heard I have found interesting and attractive, so I wanted to find out more about him.
Faure started out firmly entrenched in the 19th century French romantic style, but as his career progressed, he began to explore more adventurous approaches to form and harmony. While he never adopted the kind of radical experiments styles of composers like Debussy and Stravinsky, Faure did bridge the gap between what had become traditional and what was emerging in the French musical world of his time. His biography also provided an interesting look at the way French musical life itself shifted between the end of the 19th century and into the 20th.
