Gabriel Faure: The Songs and their Poets (Hardcover)

Contents: Foreword; Songs through life: an overview; An indifference to success; Second empire and first songs; War and peace on Parnassus; Chez Mmme P. Viardot-Garcia;1878, a transitional year of song; Bachelor and husband - the Silvestre years; Crisis and decadence; Faure and Paul Verlaine (I); Faure and Paul Verlaine (II); Crossing the divide - towards the late style; Interlude: the silent gift; Faure and Charles van Lerberghe (I); Faure and Charles van Lerberghe (II); Mirages and horizons; Some notes on the performance of Faure's songs; The pianists workshop (wherin singers are always welcome); Appendices; Indexes.