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ALBUMFauré: Dolly Suite, Op.56 - EPNiagara Falls Piano Classic Philharmonic & Gabriel Fauré
Albums by Gabriel Fauré
ALBUMFauré: La Bonne Chanson - L'Horizon chimérique - Ballade - MélodiesStéphane Degout & Alain Planès
ALBUMFauré AuthentiqueMarc Coppey & François Dumont
ALBUMPure Piano: 50+ Classical Piano MasterpiecesMassimo Colombo, Costantino Catena, Michele Garruti & Rossano Torre
ALBUMDeep Sleep Classical Piano MusicVarious Artists
ALBUMThe Essentials: Classical Piano MusicVarious Artists
ALBUMFauré & Herbert: Orchestral WorksSinfonietta Schaffhausen, Mi Zhou & Paul K. Haug
ALBUMRêverie (The Royal Academy of Music Bicentenary Series)Anna Im & Chiao-Ying Chang
ALBUMAve Marias IIAnna Paula Sahdi & Elisabeth Fischer Valente
ALBUMClassic Tunes, Vol.8Ensemble Ferblanc & Tomas Blank In Harmony
ALBUMLiederMaria Asta
Gabriel Fauré's Popular Music Videos
Fauré: Sicilienne, Op. 78
Gautier Capuçon & Jérôme Ducros
Fauré: Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 13: III. Allegro vivo
Rafał Blechacz & Bomsori
Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine, Op. 11 (Arr. Taylor Davis)
VOCES8, Barnaby Smith & English Chamber Orchestra
Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1 (Arr. Cello & Piano)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason & Isata Kanneh-Mason
Fauré: 8 Pièces brèves, Op. 84: V. Improvisation
Lucas Debargue
Fauré: Dolly, Op. 56: I. Berceuse
Alexandre Tharaud & Nicholas Angelich
Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1
Matt Haimovitz & Mari Kodama
Elégie in C Minor, Op. 24 (Arr. Parkin)
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 7: No. 1, Après un rêve
Sabine Devieilhe & Alexandre Tharaud
Fauré: Morceau de Concours
Stefan Hempel & Daniel Seroussi
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Gabriel Fauré Essentials
A great teacher and a wonderful composer whose Requiem granted him immortality.
Artist Biography
Sincerity, clarity, and perfection of expression were the self-proclaimed watchwords of Gabriel Fauré, whose life spanned the music of Berlioz, Schumann, and Chopin at one end, and the radicalism of Arnold Schoenberg at the other. His creative life, moreover, was bounded by the Franco-Prussian War (and its fallout) and the dislocation of WWI. Born in Parmiers in 1845, Fauré gained his early training as a church musician, but although he was for many years associated with Saint-Sulpice and the Madeleine in Paris, it’s not as an organist/composer that he’s remembered—even if his most popular work is the Requiem, begun in 1887 and subsequently tweaked for over a decade. His piano music includes nocturnes and barcarolles (thirteen apiece) that chart an evolution from early salon charm to the complexity and harmonic density of the late works, a stylistic intensification perhaps in part attributable to Fauré’s increasing deafness. The opera Pénélope (1913) had a mixed reception, but his songs, much cherished by Ravel, are a cornerstone of the French mélodie tradition. A rich harvest of chamber music ranging from duo sonatas to smoldering piano quartets and quintets discloses an immediately recognizable voice that is urbane, sophisticated, and supple. A darkly introspective and troubled swansong, the String Quartet (Fauré’s only foray into the genre), was completed just before his death in 1924.
Hometown
Pamiers, Ariège, France
Genre
Classical