Regarding Faure

Regarding Faur�, the result of a 1995 conference on Faur�'s important contribution to classical music, was written by Tom Gordon, artistic director the Ensemble Musica Nova and a professor in the Department of music at Bishop's University in Quebec. Also included are contributions from some of the world's most renowned Faur� scholars including Jean-Michel Nectous, Robert Orledge, Edward Phillips, and Steven Huebner. With a lifetime that spanned the developments of Chopin, Debussy, Schoenberg, and Stravinsky, the great French composer Gabriel-Urbain Faur� (1845-1924) lived during one of the most interesting periods in music history, yet steered a course uniquely his own. Exploring the composer's role as an educator, critic, composer, and advocate for French music, Regarding Faur� is critical, analytical, and interdisciplinary in its approach to understanding Faur�'s prodigious works and life. Also includes musical examples. His numerous compositions include more than 100 songs (known as 'melodie', or French a