Gabriel Fauré
Subtitle: A Musical Life
Contributors: Roger Nichols (Translator)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 26, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780521235242
Subjects: Composers & musicians; Criticism and interpretation; Music Of The 19th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; General; Faure, Gabriel,; Faure, Gabriel; Faurâe, Gabriel,--1845-1924--Criticism and interpretation; Music / General; Composers & Musicians - General; 1845-1924; Faurâe, Gabriel,
First sentence: In 1845 France was entering a period of industrial and colonial development that was to make her, with Britain, one of the richest and most powerful nations in the world.