Gabriel
Faure (1845 - 1924)
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Gabriel
Urbain Fauré was born in Pamiers, France, on 12th May 1845 and died on November 4, 1924 because of pneumonia.
Faure is one of the French composers who also
contributed in the Music History. He was
a composer, teacher, pianist, and organist in the Romatic era.
He
started his musical studies at the age of nine at Ecole Niedermever music
school in Paris where his mentor was the famous French composer
Camille Saint-Saens. They became friends
and later founded the Societé
Nationale de Musique for younger
generation of composers in France.
He
became a professor of composition at Paris Conservatoire. Maurice Ravel, another great French composer became his student and Nadia
Boulanger, most influential teacher of musical composition on the 20th
century. He held a position of a
director of the Conservatoire in 1905 – 1920.
He
was the main organist at the Churches of Saint Sulpice (1871 – 1874) and Madeleine (1896 – 1905).
His music influences are
composers Chopin, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Richard
Wagner.
His musical style exudes melodic
sophistication and harmonic complexity. He
was regarded as the master of French songs and the Brahms of France.
See
more of his major works:
Song,
Après un reve (After a Dream), 1865
First
violin sonata, 1876
Ballade, for piano and orchestra, 1881
Pavane, for orchestra, 1887
Song,
Claire de lune (Moonlight), 1887
Orchestral
Suite, Shylock, 1889
Orchestral
Suite, Pelleas and Melisande, 1892
Song-cycle,
La Bonne Chanson (The Good Song), 1893
Dolly
suite, for piano duet, 1897
Opera,
Pelleas et Melisande, 1898
Requiem
Mass, 1900
Opera,
Penelope, 1913
Song-cycle,
Le Jardin clos (The Enclosed Garden), 1915
Orchestral
Suite, Masques et Beramasques, 1919
Song-Cycle,
L'Horizon chimerique (The Elusive Horizon)
Faure
was married to Marie Fremiet in 1883 with whom he had two sons, but later his
marriage failed. There had been other
women in his life which said to be the inspiration of his works.
