Gabriel Fauré (French composer)

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Gabriel Urbain Fauré (French: [ɡabʁi.ɛl yʁbɛ̃ foʁe]; 12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune". Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.

Fauré was born into a cultured but not especially musical family. His talent became clear when he was a young boy. At the age of nine, he was sent to the École Niedermeyer music college in Paris, where he was trained to be a church organist and choirmaster. Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend. After graduating from the college in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him little time for composition. When he became successful in his middle age, holding the important posts of organist of the Église de la Madeleine and director of the Paris Conservatoire, he still lacked time for composing; he retreated to the countryside in the summer holidays to concentrate on composition. By his last years, he was recognised in France as the leading French composer of his day. An unprecedented national musical tribute was held for him in Paris in 1922, headed by the president of the French Republic. Outside France, Fauré's music took decades to become widely accepted, except in Britain, where he had many admirers during his lifetime.

Fauré's music has been described as linking the end of Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century. When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of Fauré's death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being heard. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which describes him as the most advanced composer of his generation in France, notes that his harmonic and melodic innovations influenced the teaching of harmony for later generations. During the last twenty years of his life, he suffered from increasing deafness. In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his works from this period are sometimes elusive and withdrawn in character, and at other times turbulent and impassioned.

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Discography

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YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1980Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit / Fauré: Thème et variations - 6ᵉ NocturneRavel / Fauré; Claude Kahn1
1982Messe Basse (English Chamber Orchestra, King's College Choir, Cambridge)Gabriel Fauré2
1993The Complete Music for Cello and PianoGabriel Fauré1
1994Nocturnes, Volume 2Fauré; Jean Martin1
1994MélodiesGabriel Fauré1
1996Saint-Saens, Faure, Bruch, Etc.Tchaikovsky, Camille Saint‐Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Max Bruch1
2003Chausson: Symphony in B-flat major, op. 20 / Fauré: Pelleas et MélisandeErnest Chausson, Gabriel Fauré; Jean Fournet, Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands2
2017The Complete Piano WorksGabriel Fauré; Paul Crossley1
FAURÉ Requiem Messe Basse Pavane pour OrchestreGabriel Fauré1
La bonne ChansonGabriel Fauré; Gérard Souzay, au piano Dalton Baldwin1
RequiemGabriel Fauré1

Album

YearTitleArtistRatingReleases
1950Requiem (1950 recording)Fauré; Les Chanteurs de Saint-Eustache, Orchestre de Saint-Eustache, André Cluytens, Maurice Duruflé1
1964Requiem / Cantique de Jean RacineGabriel Fauré; L'Orchestre National de l'Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Louis Frémaux2
1971The ImpressionistsSatie, Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Honegger; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann1
1972RequiemFauré; André Cluytens, Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau, Victoria de los Ángeles, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire4
1976Messe de Requiem op. 48 / Cantique de Jean Racine op. 11Fauré; Benjamin Luxon, Jonathon Bond, The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, George Guest1
1977Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto no. 3 / Chausson: Poème for Violin and Orchestra / Fauré: Berceuse, op. 16Saint‐Saëns, Chausson, Fauré; Isaac Stern, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboim2
1978Requiem / Cantique de Jean RacineGabriel Fauré; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Louis Frémaux, Norma Burrowes, Brian Rayner Cook1
1979Les 13 BarcarollesFauré; Éric Heidsieck1
1980La Bonne Chanson / Chansons De Bilitis / Ariettes OubliéesFauré, Debussy; Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin1
1982L'œuvre d'orchestre, Vol. II: Ballade / Fantaise / Élégie / Berceuse / Les Djinns / Caligula / Prélude de PénélopeGabriel Fauré; Jean‐Philippe Collard, Paul Tortelier, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Ensemble Vocal Alix Bourbon, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson1
1982Pavane / Pelleas et Melisande / Masques et bergamasques Suite / Fantasie for FluteFauré; Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner2
1983Complete Solo Piano Works, Volume 1: The Nocturnes nos. 1-7Gabriel Fauré; Paul Crossley1
1983Jeux D'enfants - Dolly - ScaramoucheBizet, Fauré, Milhaud; Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky1
1983MélodiesFauré ; Frederica von Stade, Jean-Philippe Collard1
1983Symphony in D minor / Pelléas et MélisandeFranck, Fauré; New Philharmonia Orchestra, Andrew Davis1
1983The Nocturnes nos 8-13 / Pièces Brèves, op. 84Gabriel Fauré; Paul Crossley1
1984Fauré: Requiem, Cantique de Jean RacineGabriel Fauré1
1984Requiem & Cantique de Jean Racine - Cambridge Singers City of London Sinfonia John RutterGabriel Fauré1
1985Bizet: Jeux d’enfants / Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye / Fauré: Dolly SuiteBizet, Fauré, Ravel; Katia & Marielle Labèque1
1985Requiem / Elégie / Messe BasseGabriel Fauré52
1985RequiemFauré; Michel Corboz, Orchestre Symphonique de Berne1
1986RequiemFauré; Lucia Popp, Simon Estes, Rundfunkchor Leipzig, Staatskapelle Dresden, Sir Colin Davis3
1986Piano QuartetsGabriel Fauré; Domus2
1986Faure: Requiem / Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunteFauré, Ravel; Philharmonia Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kathleen Battle, Andreas Schmidt1
1986Klavierquintette op. 89 und op. 115Gabriel Fauré; Quintetto Fauré di Roma1
1986Lalo, Saint‐Saëns: Cello Concertos / Fauré: ÉlégieLalo, Saint‐Saëns, Fauré; Lynn Harrell, Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Riccardo Chailly1
1986String QuartetsDebussy, Ravel, Fauré; Quatuor Viotti41
1986Schubert: Fantaisie / Saint‐Saëns: Danse macabre / Fauré: Dolly / Brahms: Danses hongroisesFranz Schubert, Camille Saint‐Saëns, Gabriel Fauré, Johannes Brahms; Martin Dörrie, Daniel Gourdon1
1987Fauré: Requiem op. 84 / Bernstein: Chichester PsalmsGabriel Fauré, Leonard Bernstein; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, Richard Hickox3
1987Pelléas et Mélisande / Dolly / Après un rêve / Pavane / Elégie (Boston Symphony Orchestra feat. conductor: Seiji Ozawa)Gabriel Fauré1
1987Complete Solo Piano Works, Volume 4: The Nine Préludes op. 103 / The Five Impromptus opp. 25, 31, 34, 91 & 102 / Thème et Variations in C sharp minor op. 73Gabriel Fauré; Paul Crossley1
1987Musique de nuitFauré, Pierné, Satie, Koechlin; Lajos Lencsés, Gisèle Herbert1
1987Requiem / "Pelléas et Mélisande" / PavaneGabriel Fauré; Elly Ameling, Bernard Kruysen, Jill Gomez, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra & Jean Fournet, David Zinman44
1987RequiemFauré; Armstrong, Fischer‐Dieskau, Orchestre de Paris, Daniel Barenboïm2
1987Ravel: Piano Concertos / Fauré: Fantaisie / Franck: Symphonic VariationsRavel, Fauré, Franck; London Philharmonic Orchestra, Alicia de Larrocha3
1987The Orpheus Trio Plays Ravel, Fauré, Debussy & DevienneMaurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, François Devienne; The Orpheus Trio1
1987Violin SonatasGabriel Fauré; Shlomo Mintz, Yefim Bronfman1
1988Requiem (1893 version) And Other Sacred MusicFauré; The Cambridge Singers, Members of the City of London Sinfonia, John Rutter2
1988Requiem / Pelléas et Mélisande / PavaneFauré; Te Kanawa, Milnes, Dutoit, Montréal2
1988Musique de chambre, Volume 1Gabriel Fauré2
1988Amsterdam Guitar Trio Plays Music by Debussy, Fauré, & ChopinDebussy, Fauré, Chopin; Amsterdam Guitar Trio1
1988Faure: Requiem / Monteverdi: Madrigali e Arie profaneFauré, Monteverdi; Nadia Boulanger1
1988Quatuors pour piano et cordesGabriel Fauré; Marguerite Long, Trio Pasquier, Jacques Thibaud, Maurice Vieux, Pierre Fournier1
1988Requiem (version 1893)Fauré; La Chapelle Royale, Ensemble Musique Oblique, Philippe Herreweghe3
1988Requiem Op. 48 / Cantique de Jean Racine Op. 11Fauré; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte‐Carlo, Louis Frémaux1
1989Requiem / Pelleas et Melisande / Masques et Bergamasques / PenelopeFauré; L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet1
1989Requiem / Messe Basse / Cantique de Jean Racine / MotetsGabriel Fauré; Corydon Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Matthew Best52
1989La Chanson d'Eve and Other SongsGabriel Fauré; Dame Janet Baker, Geoffrey Parsons1
1989Franck: Sonate / Fauré: Sonate no. 1, Berceuse / Debussy: Sonate, MinstrelsFranck, Fauré, Debussy; Jacques Thibaud, Alfred Cortot1
1989Fauré: Requiem / Cantique de Jean Racine / Duruflé: Messe "Cum jubilo" / Quatre motets / Messiaen: O sacrum conviviumGabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen; Choir of Trinity College, Richard Marlow2
1989Le Requiem de Fauré à Saint-EustacheGabriel Fauré1
1989MélodiesFauré; Barbara Hendricks, Michel Dalberto2
1989Nocturnes / Barcarolle / Impromptu / Theme and VariationsFauré; Vlado Perlemuter2
1989Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D major / Piano Concerto in G major / Fauré: Ballade, op. 19Ravel, Fauré; Louis Lortie, London Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos1
1989RequiemsFauré, Duruflé; Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury1
1989Violin SonatasFauré, Debussy, Franck; Joshua Bell, Jean‐Yves Thibaudet1
1990Piano MusicFauré; Pascal Rogé1
199013 Barcarolles, oeuvres pour pianoFauré, Collard2
1990Cello ConcertosSaint‐Saëns, Lalo, Fauré; Gaspar Cassadó, Bamberger Symphony, Jonel Perlea1
1990Pelléas et MélisandeSchönberg, Sibelius, Fauré; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta2
1990Piano Quartets Op. 15 & Op. 45Gabriel Fauré; Quartetto Fauré di Roma1
1990Trio op. 120 / Quartet op. 15 no. 1Fauré; Beaux Arts Trio, Kim Kashkashian1
1991Nocturns CompleteFauré;Éric Heidsieck1
1991Dukas: Symphonie en ut majeur / Fauré: Pelléas et MélisandePaul Dukas, Gabriel Fauré; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte‐Carlo, Lawrence Foster1
1991Festliches Konzert in der Abteikirche Amorbach für Orgel, drei Trompeten und PaukenBach, Mozart, Rheinberger, Fauré, Delibes; Klemens Schnorr, Jean François Michel1
1991Sonates pour violoncelle et pianoFauré; Roland Pidoux, Jean‐Claude Pennetier1
1991Sonates pour violoncelleGabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy; Paul Tortelier, Jean Hubeau1
1991Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto / Honegger: Cello Concerto / Fauré / d'IndySaint‐Saëns, Honegger, Fauré, d’Indy; Julian Lloyd Webber, English Chamber Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier1
1992Romantic French Music for Guitar and OrchestraDebussy, Fauré, Satie; CSSR State Philharmonic Orchestra, Peter Breiner, Gerald Garcia1
1992Cello Concerto / Rococo Variations / Schelomo / ElegieLalo, Tchaikovsky, Bloch, Fauré; The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, Leonard Rose1
1992Franck / Fauré / DebussyFranck, Fauré, Debussy; Dimitri Ferschtman, Mila Baslawskaya1
1992Piano TriosRavel, Debussy, Fauré; Trio Fontenay1
1992Piano Quartets, opp. 15 & 45Gabriel Fauré; Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, Jaime Laredo, Yo‐Yo Ma52
1992Requiem / Cantique de Jean Racine / Motets / Messe basseGabriel Fauré, Magali Dami, Peter Harvey, Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental de Lausanne, Michel Corboz1
1993Requiem / PavaneGabriel Fauré; Robert Chilcott, John Carol Case, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks1
1993Fauré: Requiem / Ravel Ma Mere L'OyeFauré, Ravel; Carlo Maria Giulini, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra1
1993Violin Concerto / Berceuse / Elegy / Masques / Nocturne / PelléasFauré; Rodolfo Bonucci, Orquesta Filarmónica de la Ciudad de México, Enrique Bátiz1
1993Fauré: Violin Sonata No. 1 / Debussy: Violin Sonata / Saint‐Saëns: Violin Sonata No. 1Fauré, Debussy, Saint‐Saëns; Chee‐Yun, Akira Eguchi1
1993Flute and Harp: Greensleeves...Rossini, Fauré, Ibert; Jean‐Pierre Rampal, Lily Laskine1
1993MélodiesFauré; Nathalie Stutzmann, Catherine Collard1
1993Widor: Symphonie VI / Fauré: Requiem, op. 48Widor, Fauré; Gerhard Blum, Kartäuserkantorei Köln, Mitglieder der Kölner Sinfonieorchester, Peter Neumann1
1994Nocturnes, Volume 1Fauré; Jean Martin1
1994Requiem, Original Orchestration / Choral WorksFauré; Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner1
1994Franck: Symphonic Variations / D'Indy: Symphony on a French Mountain Air / Fauré: Ballade, op. 19Franck, D'Indy, Fauré; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Antonio de Almeida, François‐Joël Thiollier1
1994L'Œuvre pour pianoGabriel Fauré; Jean Doyen1
1994Fauré: Requiem / Fauré: Messe basse / Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine / Vierne: Andantino / de Séverac: Tantum ergoGabriel Fauré, Louis Vierne, Déodat de Séverac; Lisa Beckley, Nicholas Gedge, Schola Cantorum of Oxford, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly2
1994Fauré: Requiem, op. 48 / Duruflé: Requiem, op. 9Fauré, Duruflé; Philharmonia Orchestra, Michel Legrand, Barbara Bonney, Jennifer Larmore, Thomas Hampson1
1994The French ConnectionRavel, Debussy, Fauré, Ibert; Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Sir Neville Marriner1
1995Piano QuintetsFauré; Domus, Anthony Marwood1

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