Gabriel Faure: The Songs and their Poets

The career of Gabriel Faur‘s a composer of songs for voice and piano traverses six decades (1862-1921); almost the whole history of French m die is contained within these parameters. In the 1860s Faur the lifelong prot of Camille Saint-Sa was a suavely precocious student; he was part of Pauline Viardot''s circle in the 1870s and he nearly married her daughter. Pointed in the direction of symbolist...