GABRIEL FAURE (URBIAN), French Composer (1845-1924). Gabriel Faure free midi downloads.

GABRIEL FAURE (URBIAN)
12^thMay 1845 --- 4^thNovember 1924

Gabriel Faure(Urbian)(born 1845, Pamiers, Ariege, France--died 1924, Paris), composer whose refined and gentle music influenced
the course of modern French music. Faure's musical abilities became apparent at an early age. When the Swiss composer and teacher
Louis Niedermeyer heard the boy, he immediately accepted him as a pupil. Faure studied piano with Camille Saint-Saens, who then
introduced him to the music of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. While still a student, Faure published his first composition, a work
for the piano, Trois romances sans paroles. In 1896 he was appointed as church organist at the church of La Madeleine in Paris and
professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1905 he succeeded Theodore Dubois as director of the Conservatoire, and he
remained in office until ill health and deafness forced him to resign in 1920. Among his pupils were Maurice Ravel, George Enesco
Jean Roger-Ducasse, Florent Schmitt, and Nadia Boulanger.

Faure excelled not only as a songwriter of great refinement and sensitivity but also as a composer in every branch of chamber music.
He wrote more than 100 songs, including "Apres un reve" (c. 1865) and "Les Roses d'Ispahan" (1884), and song cycles that included
La Bonne Chanson (1891-92) and L'Horizon chimerique (1922). He has enriched the literature of the piano with a number of highly
original and exquisitely wrought works, of which are his 13 nocturnes, 13 barcaroles, and 5 impromptus are perhaps are his most
representative and best known. Faure's Ballade (1881) for piano and orchestra (originally solo piano), two sonatas for violin and
piano, and Berceuse for violin and piano (1880) are among other popular works that use the piano. Elegie for cello and piano, later
arranged for orchestra, and two sonatas for cello and piano, as well as much chamber music, are frequently performed and recorded.

Faure was not instinctively attracted to the theatre, but he wrote incidental music for several plays, including Maurice Maeterlinck's
Pelleas et Melisande (1898), as well as two lyric dramas, Promethee (1900) and Penelope (1913). Among his few works written for
the orchestra alone is Masques et bergamasques (1919). The Messe de requiem for solo voices, chorus, orchestra, and organ (1887)
did not gain immediate popularity, but it has since become one of Faure's most frequently performed works.

Although he had deep respect for the traditional forms of music, Faure delighted in infusing those forms with a melange of harmonic
daring and a freshness of invention. This quiet and unspectacular revolution prepared the way for more sensational innovations by the
modern French school. Now one of the most striking features of his style of music was his fondness for daring harmonic progressions
and sudden modulations, invariably carried out with supreme elegance and a deceptive air of simplicity.
Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last Updated on September 2025
By Steven Ritchie

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NEW (4784)"Clair Delune, Opus46.no.2. Sequencer by Unknown.

Thanks to Taki for the music below.
(3487)"Requiem, No.1, Opus.48". Sequenced by Taki.

(3486)"Requiem, No.6, Opus.48". Sequenced by Taki.

(3485)"Requiem, No.7, Opus.48". Sequenced by Taki.

Thanks to Joao Rocha for the music below, Email (joao.rocha@loggo.com.br)
(2708)"Berceuse Op.16 for flute and piano". Sequenced by Joao Rocha.

Thanks to Emily Gray for the music below, Email (HappyMusician@opendiary.com)
(2409)"Romance sans paroles". Sequenced by Emily Gray.

(1767)"Cantique de Jean Racine". Sequenced by Emily Gray

Thank s to George Pollen for the music below. Link to his wedsite on my Bookmark page.
(2194)"Sicilienne, from the Suite Pelleas & Melisande". Sequenced by George Pollen.

(842)"Berceuse". Sequenced by George Pollen

(687)"Dolly Suite extract". Sequenced by George Pollen

(689)"Overture Masque & Bergamasque". Sequenced by George Pollen

Thanks to Atyim for the music below. Email (atyim@hal.ne.jp)
(1353)"Fleur jetee". Sequenced by Atyim

(1354)"Les roses d' Ispahan". Sequenced by Atyim

(1356)"Nocturne". Sequenced by Atyim

(1357)"Spleen Song". Sequenced by Atyim

(1358)"Noctune". Sequenced by Atyim

(757)"Souvenirs de Bayreuth". Sequenced by David Siu

(1a)"Le Jardin de Dolly No.3". Sequenced by Katsuhiro Oguri

(2a)"Requiem Agnus Dei". Sequenced by Dominique Rayett

(356)"Le Jardin de Dolly No.2". Sequencer unknown

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