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Après Un Rêve
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Browse piano sheets by Gabriel Fauré on Zen Virtual Piano. The year 1877 was significant for Fauré: in January his first violin sonata was performed at a Société Nationale concert with great success, marking a turning-point in his composing career. Training in church music and a violin sonata performed with great success in 1877 mark a composer who started from the organ loft and reached the concert hall. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs “Après un rêve” and “Clair de lune.” “Après un rêve” (Op. 7, No. 1) is one of his most popular vocal pieces. A song as popular as “Après un rêve” standing beside a Requiem and a Pavane suggests a composer whose reach ran from the voice to the church. Fauré was born in Pamiers, Ariège, in the south of France, the fifth son and youngest of six children of Toussaint-Honoré Fauré and Marie-Antoinette-Hélène Lalène-Laprade, into a cultured but not especially musical family. His talent became clear when he was a young boy, and at the age of nine he was sent to the École Niedermeyer music college in Paris. A school that introduced Schumann, Liszt and Wagner under Saint-Saëns shows a church-music education with a window onto contemporary music. Niedermeyer’s goal was to produce qualified organists and choirmasters, and the school focused on church music; when Niedermeyer died in March 1861, Camille Saint-Saëns took charge of piano studies and introduced contemporary music, including that of Schumann, Liszt and Wagner. After graduating in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, which left him little time for composition. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he volunteered for military service and took part in the action to raise the siege of Paris. When he returned to Paris in October 1871 he was appointed choirmaster at the Église Saint-Sulpice under Charles-Marie Widor. To support his family he spent most of his time running the daily services at the Madeleine and giving piano and harmony lessons. Fauré admired Wagner and had a detailed knowledge of his music, but he was one of the few composers of his generation not to come under Wagner’s musical influence. A composer who admired Wagner and still stood apart from his influence says something about how firmly his own style was set. After his retirement from the Paris Conservatoire in 1920 he embarked on a burst of creativity, devoting himself to composition. A burst of creativity after retirement from the Conservatoire in 1920 hints at music held in reserve through years of teaching and services.
Browse piano sheets by Gabriel Fauré on Zen Virtual Piano.
The year 1877 was significant for Fauré: in January his first violin sonata was performed at a Société Nationale concert with great success, marking a turning-point in his composing career. Training in church music and a violin sonata performed with great success in 1877 mark a composer who started from the organ loft and reached the concert hall. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs “Après un rêve” and “Clair de lune.” “Après un rêve” (Op. 7, No. 1) is one of his most popular vocal pieces. A song as popular as “Après un rêve” standing beside a Requiem and a Pavane suggests a composer whose reach ran from the voice to the church.
Fauré was born in Pamiers, Ariège, in the south of France, the fifth son and youngest of six children of Toussaint-Honoré Fauré and Marie-Antoinette-Hélène Lalène-Laprade, into a cultured but not especially musical family. His talent became clear when he was a young boy, and at the age of nine he was sent to the École Niedermeyer music college in Paris. A school that introduced Schumann, Liszt and Wagner under Saint-Saëns shows a church-music education with a window onto contemporary music. Niedermeyer’s goal was to produce qualified organists and choirmasters, and the school focused on church music; when Niedermeyer died in March 1861, Camille Saint-Saëns took charge of piano studies and introduced contemporary music, including that of Schumann, Liszt and Wagner.
After graduating in 1865, Fauré earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, which left him little time for composition. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 he volunteered for military service and took part in the action to raise the siege of Paris. When he returned to Paris in October 1871 he was appointed choirmaster at the Église Saint-Sulpice under Charles-Marie Widor. To support his family he spent most of his time running the daily services at the Madeleine and giving piano and harmony lessons.
Fauré admired Wagner and had a detailed knowledge of his music, but he was one of the few composers of his generation not to come under Wagner’s musical influence. A composer who admired Wagner and still stood apart from his influence says something about how firmly his own style was set. After his retirement from the Paris Conservatoire in 1920 he embarked on a burst of creativity, devoting himself to composition. A burst of creativity after retirement from the Conservatoire in 1920 hints at music held in reserve through years of teaching and services.
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In January 1877 his first violin sonata was performed at a Société Nationale concert with great success, marking a turning-point in his composing career.
At the École Niedermeyer music college in Paris, which he entered at the age of nine; Camille Saint-Saëns took charge of piano studies there in 1861.
Among them are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs “Après un rêve” and “Clair de lune.”