Presents new research on Fauré by leading scholars, encompassing hermeneutics, musical analysis, aesthetic theory, critical theory, and social history.

Foreword Jean-Michel Nectoux; 1. Patrons and society: Gabriel Fauré's 'other' career in the Paris and London music salons Sylvia Kahan; 2. Keys to the ineffable in Fauré: criticism, history, aesthetics Hervé Lacombe; 3. Fauré as student and teacher of harmony Robert O. Gjerdingen; 4. Romancing the mélodie, or generic dialogue in Fauré's early songs Stephen Rumph; 5. Lux æterna: Fauré's messe de requiem, op. 48 Byron Adams; 6. From Homer's banquet to Fauchois' feast: The Odyssey's odyssey Sander Goldberg; 7. Orchestral melody in Pénélope: aspects of Wagner's influence on Fauré Mathieu Schneider; 8. Fauré the practical interpreter Roy Howat; 9. Fauré, orientalism, and le voile du bonheur Carlo Caballero and Leslee Smucker; 10. Jankélévitch, Fauré, and the thirteenth nocturne Steven Rings.