The Faure Song Cycles

"A highly important reconsideration. Nobody before has properly addressed the intensity of Fauré's engagement with literature and poetry, particularly in terms of showing how it operates musically."--Roy Howat, author of The Art of French Piano Music: Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier "This book offers an excellent, at times brilliant, contribution to the understanding of Fauré as a singularly inventive composer of song cycles, and a sophisticated compositional 'reader' of poetry."--David J. Code, Reader in Music, University of Glasgow