Gabriel Faure (15 May 1877 – 5 August 1962) was a French poet, novelist and essayist. He was the author of many books about Italy, and the editor of a...
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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...
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The French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and choral works. His compositions...
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Sébastien Faure (1858–1942), French anarchist Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo Élie Faure (1873–1937), French art historian and essayist Gabriel Faure (1877–1962)...
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The Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13, was written by Gabriel Fauré from 1875 to 1876. It is considered one of the three masterpieces of his youth...
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etcher and painter Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), late-Romantic French composer Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014), Colombian novelist Gabriel Iglesias (born...
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Gabriel Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 2, in G minor, Op. 45, is one of the two chamber works he wrote for the conventional piano quartet combination of piano...
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Marguerite de Saint-Marceaux (category 19th-century French women writers)
Proust, Colette, Giovanni Boldini, Maurice Ravel, Isadora Duncan, and Gabriel Fauré. A number of musical works were debuted at her salons, including excerpts...
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Charles Grandmougin (category French male non-fiction writers)
(2009). Gabriel Fauré: the songs and their poets, Guildhall School of Music and Drama (London, England), p. 120 Johnson, Graham (2009). Gabriel Fauré: the...
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Théodore Dubois (category French male non-fiction writers)
Dubois was a founding member together with, among others, Henri Duparc, Gabriel Fauré, César Franck, Ernest Guiraud and Massenet. In the same year he was...
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Louis Aguettant (category Writers from Lyon)
stuff of "a talent of the first order." Passionate about music he met Gabriel Fauré, Georges Martin Witkowski, maintained correspondence with Maurice Ravel...
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Henry Bordeaux (category 20th-century French male writers)
(1933) Le Visage de l'Italie, publié sous la direction littéraire de Gabriel Faure. Préface de Benito Mussolini. - Paul Bourget, Henri de Régnier, Henry...
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translations are the English versions of the standard biography of Gabriel Fauré by Jean-Michel Nectoux and of Harry Halbreich's study of Arthur Honegger...
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Kelly, he "was only teachable on his own terms". His later teacher Gabriel Fauré understood this, but it was not generally acceptable to the conservative...
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included recently composed music by Claude Debussy, Ernest Chausson and Gabriel Fauré. Leading exponents of the Symbolist movement who gave lectures include...
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first concert of the Société musicale indépendante, with her friend Gabriel Fauré as her accompanist. In 1923 and 1924 she gave joint recitals with pianist...
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James Baldwin (redirect from James Baldwin (writer))
his landlady, Jeanne Faure. At the time of his death, Baldwin did not have full ownership of the home, and it was Mlle. Faure's intention that the home...
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Henri de Régnier (category Writers from Normandy)
47. Le Visage de l'Italie, publié sous la direction littéraire de Gabriel Faure. Préface de Benito Mussolini. - Paul Bourget, Henri de Régnier, Henry...
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René Fauchois (category Writers from Rouen)
and music by Gabriel Fauré. The Fauré scholar Jean-Michel Nectoux comments on aspects of the libretto that he regards as flawed, but Fauré was much impressed...
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January – Gabriel Fauré becomes organist at the Church of Saint-Sauveur, at Rennes in Brittany. March–December – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky writes his Symphony...
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pp. 43–44 (Saint-Saëns) and pp. 263–267 (Messager and Fauré) Nectoux, Jean-Michel. "Fauré, Gabriel (Urbain)", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press...
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Heidi Thomas (category 20th-century English women writers)
Desert Island Discs, selecting music by Joni Mitchell, The Beatles and Gabriel Fauré In 2021, Thomas wrote the screenplay for Allelujah, a film adaptation...
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champion cyclist and aviator Edgar Faure (1908–1988), statesman and World War II resistance fighter Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), composer Fernandel (Fernand...
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Jessica Duchen (category British writers about music)
who is a violinist. Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Phaidon Press, 1996. Gabriel Faure. Phaidon Press, 2000. (with Dorothy Bohm) Inside London. Lund Humphries...
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admired Ravel's piece rather more than did its dedicatee, Ravel's teacher Gabriel Fauré. Ravel attended the Paris Conservatoire, but his unconventional ideas...
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important in the development of French music: his students included Gabriel Fauré, among whose own later pupils was Maurice Ravel. Both of them were strongly...
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Norman Charles Suckling (category Fauré scholars)
biographies on Gabriel Fauré and Molière. While at Durham, Suckling sometimes performed as a pianist, presenting concerts of mostly French music. His Fauré monograph...
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Alexander Scriabin) – 3:01 "Time Remembered" (Bill Evans) – 4:10 "Pavane" (Gabriel Fauré) – 4:01 "Elegia (Elegy)" (Claus Ogerman) – 5:12 "My Bells" (Evans) –...
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Events from the year 1896 in France. President: Felix Faure President of the Council of Ministers: Léon Bourgeois (until 29 April), Jules Méline (starting...
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Émile Vuillermoz (category Fauré scholars)
student at the Conservatoire de Paris, his teachers being Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, Antoine Taudou and Daniel Fleuret. Among his fellow students was Maurice...
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