Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12,1845 - November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. At the age of 9, he wa
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12,1845 - November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers. At the age of 9, he was sent to a music college in Paris, where he was trained to be a church organist and choirmaster. After graduating from the college in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him little time for composition. When he became successful in his middle age, holding the important posts of organist of the Église de la Madeleine and director of the Paris Conservatoire, he still lacked time for composing; he retreated to the countryside in the summer holidays to concentrate on composition. His music has been described as linking the end of Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century. His harmonic and melodic innovations influenced the teaching of harmony for later generations. During the last twenty years of his life, he suffered from increasing deafness. In contrast with the charm of his earlier music, his works from this period are sometimes elusive and withdrawn in character, and at other times turbulent and impassioned. By his last years, he was recognized in France as the leading French composer of his day. He died of pneumonia in 1924 at the age of 79. No photographer credited, undated.
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