Gabriel Fauré


A comprehensive overview of the life and career of French composer.


Jessica Duchen


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Overview
  • Chronicles the life and career of French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924), setting him in both his artistic and historical context
  • Gives equal weight to Fauré's private and public lives, profiling the man behind the music
  • Goes beyond the usual perception of Fauré as a dreamy, unworldly individual to reveal his ambition and decisiveness in his struggle to achieve recognition from France's musical establishment



In The Press

'This is an inspired choice in this still early round of Phaidon's excellent, well-presented and illustrated 20th-Century Composers Series.' (Classical Music)

'Jessica Duchen's admirable biography will do much to advance the cause of Korngold.' (Jewish Chronicle)

'As a series, Phaidon's 20th Century Composers has brought remarkable variety and a welter of information, both necessary and delightfully trivial. Intended both for the general reader and for the more enthusiatically musical...' (The Scotsman)



About the author(s)
Jessica Duchen is a freelance music journalist whose work appears frequently in the Guardian and BBC Music Magazine, among other publications. Founding editor of Piano magazine, she is the author of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, also in the 20th-Century Composers series.


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