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Gabriel Faur© : Influences and Influence - James William Sobaskie

Gabriel Faur©

Influences and Influence

By: James William Sobaskie (Editor), Roy Howat (Contribution by), Alison Hood (Contribution by)

Hardcover | 10 February 2026

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Presents Faur© 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 Faur© (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 Faur©, 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 Faur©'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. Faur© 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.

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