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Bookmark or Share- Fauré: 15 facts about the Great Composer - Classic FMFauré's Requiem. Fauré said of his Requiem, "Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest." Fauré saw death as a "happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful ...
- Gabriel Fauré: A Life - Classic FMFauré affectionately nicknamed her “Dolly’” due to her petite stature, and composed the enchanting two-piano Dolly Suite for her. Fauré turned 50 in 1895, respected and well known amongst the cognoscenti, but hardly a world-class figure.
- Fauré: 15 facts about the Great Composer - Classic FMGabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was one of the most influential of French composers, linking the end of Romanticism with the beginnings of the modern era. His Requiem and Pavane remain among the best-loved classical pieces.
- Gabriel Fauré: Requiem - Classic FMIn his seven-section Requiem, the French composer Gabriel Fauré distilled some of the most beautiful melodies he ever composed. The creation was almost certainly a musical tribute to his father, who died in 1885, three years before work on the Requiem began.
- Fauré: 15 facts about the Great Composer - Classic FMHolding an important post as organist as well as being director of the Paris Conservatoire meant that Fauré had to retreat to the countryside in the summer to concentrate on composing. He began his Requiem in 1887, revised and expanded it over the years, until its final version dating from 1901.
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