The Élégie (Elegy), Op. 24, was written by the French composer Gabriel Fauré in 1880, and first published and performed in public in 1883. Originally for...
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Elegy (disambiguation) (redirect from Élégie (Balanchine))
Balanchine to Igor Stravinsky's Élégie for solo viola Élégie (Massenet), an 1873 piece for cello and orchestra Élégie (Fauré), an 1883 piece for cello and...
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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...
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Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1893. It was originally an orchestral piece, written for a theatrical production that was abandoned. In 1898 Fauré arranged...
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Dolly Suite, Op. 56, is a collection of pieces for piano duet by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of six short pieces written or revised between 1893 and 1896...
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following is a complete list of the compositions by the French composer Gabriel Fauré. Works are listed both by genre and by opus number. Fugue à trois parties...
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included in the Requiem is the Libera me, which Fauré wrote in 1877 as an independent work. In 1887–88, Fauré composed the first version of the work, which...
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("Moonlight") Op. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887 to words by Paul Verlaine. Fauré's 1887 setting of the poem was for voice and piano;...
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by the French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional...
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sketches by Fauré in short score. The second is the conducting score used by Fauré in London; this is also a manuscript in Koechlin's handwriting. Fauré later...
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one: it led some to dub Fauré a "salon composer", but it attracted the attention of the publisher Julien Hamelle. Until then, Fauré had been struggling to...
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Cantique de Jean Racine (redirect from Cantique de Jean Racine (Fauré))
curriculum for all students. Fauré's teacher in advanced piano was Camille Saint-Saëns, who encouraged him to compose. In 1861 Fauré participated in the first...
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minor, Op. 117 is the second of the two cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré. In early 1921 Fauré had been commissioned by the French government to write a funeral...
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and 1893 while Fauré was staying in Bougival, as the guest of the banker Sigismond Bardac and his wife, the soprano Emma Bardac. Fauré was in love with...
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Fauré – A Musical Life. Translated by Roger Nichols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23524-3. Nectoux, Jean-Michel (2001). "Fauré,...
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written for a small orchestra, and Fauré greatly expanded the orchestration for the concert suite. In 1889 Fauré composed incidental music for a new...
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Wyastone Leys: Nimbus Alliance. OCLC 1180967723. Fauré, Gabriel (1984). Jean-Michel Nectoux (ed.). Gabriel Fauré: His Life through Letters. London: Boyars....
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Fauré later incorporated the song in its orchestral form into his incidental music to Masques et bergamasques (1919). Grove lists ten other Fauré settings...
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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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Emmanuel Fauré-Fremiet, ForMemRS, (1883–1971) was a French biologist. Fauré-Fremiet was born on 29 December 1883 to the composer Gabriel Fauré and Marie...
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1 in D minor, Op. 109 is the first of the two cello sonatas by Gabriel Fauré. Composed in 1917 at Saint-Raphaël and Paris, it was premiered on 10 November...
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Masques et bergamasques (redirect from Masques et Bergamasques (Fauré))
After the first performance, Fauré wrote to his wife, "Reynaldo Hahn says that the ouverture sounds like Mozart imitating Fauré – an amusing idea." The typical...
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mélodies for solo voice and piano, by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of "Après un rêve" (Op. 7, No. 1), one of Faure's most popular vocal pieces, "Hymne" (Op. 7...
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tone throughout the registers. Fauré specified a playing time of four-and-a-half minutes. Nectoux, Jean-Michel (2001). "Fauré, Gabriel (Urbain)". Grove Music...
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chef d'œuvre de Gabriel Fauré à la Société Nationale", La Lanterne, 31 May 1921, p. 2 Jones, p. 192 Copland, Aaron. "Gabriel Fauré, a Neglected Master",...
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"Elegy" (French: élégie) may denote a type of musical work, usually of a sad or somber nature. A well-known example is the Élégie, Op. 10, by Jules Massenet...
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No. 6 in D major, Op. 60 (B. 112) Songs My Mother Taught Me Gabriel Fauré – Élégie, for cello and piano César Franck – Piano Quintet, premiered January...
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Nocturne in C minor, Op. posth. (Chopin) Mazurka Op. 56, No. 3 Gabriel Fauré Élégie, Op. 24 Joseph Haydn Piano Sonata Hob. XVI/20 Franz Liszt Transcendental...
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passion", but counselled Fauré to rework or abandon the "dull and monotonous" opening Allegro. Like his two abandoned symphonies, Fauré would reuse the material...
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Mazurkas, Op. 24 Enescu – Piano Sonata No. 1 Enescu – Piano Sonata No. 3 Fauré – Élégie Grieg – Ballade in the Form of Variations on a Norwegian Folk Song Hindemith...
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