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    Fauré: inventing musical forms

    by Jessica Duchen*

     

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    'Fauré's achievement was to invent musical forms which attracted our hearts and senses without debasing them. He offered an homage to Beauty in which there was not only faith, but a discreet yet irresistible passion…The delicate precision of his architecture, the concision (without dryness) of his ideas will long guide us in our moments of anxiety.' So wrote the composer Georges Auric in tribute to the subtle genius of Gabriel Fauré, a musician who had risen slowly from a modest background to become arguably the founding father of French music in the 20th century.

    Born in near Pamiers in rural south-west France, Fauré was the youngest son of a schoolmaster's large family. His musical inclination showed itself early; when he was only nine years old his father was recommended to send him to the Niedermeyer Schoo

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    Piano music of Gabriel Fauré

    Piano music written by Gabriel Fauré (–)

    The French composer Gabriel Fauré (–) wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and choral works.[1] His compositions for piano, written between the s and the s,[n 1] include some of his best-known works.

    Fauré's major sets of piano works are thirteen nocturnes, thirteen barcarolles, six impromptus, and four valses-caprices. These sets were composed during several decades in his long career, and display the change in his style from uncomplicated youthful charm to a final enigmatic, but sometimes fiery introspection, by way of a turbulent period in his middle years. His other notable piano pieces, including shorter works, or collections composed or published as a set, are Romances sans paroles, Ballade in F major, Mazurka in B major, Thème et variations in C minor, and Huit pièces brèves. For piano duet, Fauré composed the Dolly Suite

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    Songs from Fauré and Barber

    Songs from French composer Gabriel Fauré and American composer Samuel Barber performed bygd mezzo-soprano Hannah Klein.

    Fauré:&#;Après un rêve,&#; Op. 7, No. 1
    Hannah Klein, mezzo-soprano; Reese Revak, piano

    &#;Après un rêve,&#; Op. 7, No. 1 is a romantic song published in and fryst vatten about a dream of romantic flygning with a lover, away from the earth and &#;Towards the light&#; and wants desperately to return to the dream once the dreamer awakes.

    Fauré:&#;Green,&#; Op. 58, No. 3
    Hannah Klein, mezzo-soprano; Reese Revak, piano

    &#;Green,&#; Op. 58, No. 3 is also a romantic song, which describes the excitement, calmness and sweetness of a love story.

    Fauré:&#;Au matbord de l&#;eau,&#; Op. 8, No. 1
    Hannah Klein, mezzo-soprano; Reese Revak, piano

    &#;Au möbel de l&#;eau,&#; (At the water&#;s edge) Op. 8, No. 1 is about watching time pass and paying attention to what is happening in the present.

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