Knowra Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Fauré Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher whose works bridge Romantic harmony and modern French music. His music includes the Requiem, Pavane, and song cycle La bonne chanson.
Mélodie : A French art song for voice and piano, developed especially in the nineteenth century. Fauré helped shape this tradition through refined settings of French poetry.
Requiem (Fauré) : Gabriel Fauré’s setting of the Catholic Mass for the Dead, composed and revised between 1887 and 1900. Its restrained, consoling approach became his best-known large-scale work.
Camille Saint-Saëns : A French composer, pianist, and organist whose long career spanned the Romantic and modern eras. Saint-Saëns taught Fauré and remained a significant musical ally.
École Niedermeyer : A Paris music school founded to train church musicians in Gregorian chant and sacred music. Fauré studied there, acquiring the early training that shaped his sacred compositions.
Société Nationale de Musique : A French organization founded in 1871 to promote music by French composers. Fauré helped lead the society’s effort to give French composers greater concert exposure.
French art song : A tradition of songs for solo voice and accompaniment, usually setting French poetry. Its changing relationship between voice and piano is central to Fauré’s songs.
Pavane (Fauré) : Gabriel Fauré’s 1887 orchestral work, also arranged for piano and later supplied with optional chorus. Its graceful melody illustrates the accessible side of his orchestral style.
Pauline Viardot : A French mezzo-soprano, composer, and teacher who was a leading figure in nineteenth-century musical life. Fauré’s association with Viardot’s circle shaped his early professional and personal life.
Louis Niedermeyer : A Swiss-born composer and teacher who founded a Paris school for church musicians. Niedermeyer’s school gave Fauré a foundation in counterpoint and liturgical music.
French music : The musical traditions and institutions associated with France and its composers. Fauré’s style connected nineteenth-century French music with later modernist practice.
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