Fauré

What does Fauré's music reveal about the nature of time? Why do certain melodies seem to awaken memories that were never entirely ours, while others open unexpected paths toward beauty, longing and the absolute?

In this highly original essay, philosopher, psychologist and musicologist Roberto Barreca explores the chamber works of Gabriel Fauré not through the conventional lenses of historical reconstruction or formal analysis, but through a phenomenological and aesthetic investigation of lived experience.

Moving through the Piano Quartets, Piano Quintets, Trio Op. 120, the Élégie, the Sicilienne, Pavane and Après un Rêve, Barreca develops a meditation on youth, nostalgia, memory, consciousness and the elusive nature of beauty. Fauré's music emerges as a privileged territory where past and present converge, where Bergson's durée and Proust's involuntary memory become audible realities, and where aesthetic experience reveals an ontological dimension that transcends historical time.

Part philosophical reflection, part musical exploration, and part personal testimony, Fauré invites readers to encounter one of the most enigmatic composers of modern music through a new and provocative perspective: not as a figure of history, but as an interpreter of the eternal present.

A book for lovers of music, philosophy, aesthetics and the mysteries of consciousness.