French composer, organist, pianist and teacher (1845–1924)
The French composer who heard Chopin as a child and lived to hear jazz — writing music that slipped between Romanticism and modernism, then deeper into places only deafness let him go.
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was born on 12 May 1845 into a cultured but not especially musical family. At nine he was sent to the École Niedermeyer in Paris, trained for the church organ, taught by Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend. After graduating in 1865 he scraped by as organist and teacher, composing in the margins. Middle age brought status — organist of the Église de la Madeleine, director of the Paris Conservatoire — but still no time; he wrote in summer retreats to the countryside. His Pavane, Requiem, nocturnes, "Après un rêve" came early and accessible. The late works — com…
Sourced, dated quotes from Gabriel Fauré
When I am no more, you will hear said of my work: "After all, it is only so much..." You will detach yourself from it, perhaps ... All that has no importance.
As for my work, I can say that it reaches its end.
But Lortat, I'm not in the habit of attracting crowds.
Now, there are some periods of music, some pitches of which I can hear nothing... of my music as well as of others.
It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death.
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