James William Sobaskie teaches at Mississippi State University and serves as Book Reviews Editor of Nineteenth-Century Music Review. A member of the Comité Scientifique for Œuvres complètes de Gabriel Fauré, his critical edition of Fauré’s last two compositions, a piano trio and string quartet, inaugurated the monument in 2010. Dr Sobaskie’s essay, ‘Chopin’s Legacy in France: The Music of Gabriel Fauré’, appears in Chopin 1810–2010: Ideas – Interpretations – Influence, available from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. With Joe Davies, James Sobaskie has edited the anthology Drama in the Music of Franz Schubert for publication by Boydell & Brewer. He also is completing a book, The Music of Gabriel Fauré: Style, Structure and the Art of Allusion, to be published by Routledge.
Contact : jsobaskie@colled.msstate.edu
Séance - French Music (I): Fauré and Saint-Saëns 2.C.2 : Allusion Analysis in Fauré’s Fantaisie pour piano et orchestre
