Gabriel Fauré: Influences and Influence
ORCID
Sobaskie: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9083-3425
MSU Affiliation
College of Education; Department of Music
Abstract
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.
Publication Date
2-10-2026
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
City
Woodbridge, UK
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First Page
1
Last Page
464
ISBN
9781837651658
Recommended Citation
Sobaskie, James W., editor. Gabriel Fauré: Influences and Influence. Boydell & Brewer, 2026, https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/gabriel-faure-influences-and-influence-9781837651658/.
