 Ravel wrote in 1922 that Fauré had saved French music from the dominance of the German "Lied".Two years later the critic Samuel Langford wrote of Fauré, "More surely almost than any writer in the world he commanded the faculty to create a song all of a piece, and with a sustained intensity of mood which made it like a single thought".In a 2011 article the pianist and writer Roy Howat and the musicologist Emily Kilpatrick wrote