Informationen zu "Gabriel Fauré Arr: David Heyes Elegie Op.24 Double Bass & Piano"
Verlag: Recital Music
Verlagsnummer: RM686
EAN: 9790570456864
ISMN: M-57045-686-4
Beschreibung
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (1845 ? 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist
and teacher and was one of the foremost French composers of his generation.
His musical style influenced many 20th-century composers and among his
best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Nocturnes, Après un rêve and Clair
de lune, alongside a wealth of instrumental and vocal music. Although his
best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones,
Fauré composed many of his most highly regarded works in his later years, in
a harmonically and melodically much more complex style. Among his teachers
was Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend, and after graduating
in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him
little time for composition. He subsequently was appointed to the important
posts of organist of the Église de la Madeleine and director of the Paris
Conservatoire. Fauré's music has been described as linking the end of
Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century.
When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of Fauré's
death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being
heard. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as the most
advanced composer of his generation in France and noted that his harmonic and
melodic innovations influenced the teaching of harmony for later generations.
