Gabriel Fauré

Name: Gabriel Fauré
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ISBN: 9781837651658

Influences and Influence

James William Sobaskie (Person), Roy Howat, Alison Hood , Jonathan Kregor (Person)

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Boydell & Brewer
10 February 2026

Western "classical" music; Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups

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.

Contributions by: Roy Howat, Alison Hood, Jonathan Kregor (Person), Marjorie Hirsch
Edited by: James William Sobaskie (Person)
Imprint: Boydell & Brewer
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781837651658
ISBN 10: 1837651655
Pages: 464
Publication Date: 10 February 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

JAMES WILLIAM SOBASKIE is Professor of Music Theory and Composition at Mississippi State University. He has published articles and essays on Fauré, as well as a critical edition of the composer's last two works, and co-edited with Joe Davies the collection Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert (Boydell Press, 2019). JOE DAVIES is a faculty member in the Division of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi. He previously held research and teaching positions at Maynooth University, the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Oxford.