Pavane (Fauré)
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The Pavane in F♯ minor, Op. 50, is a short work by the French composer Gabriel Fauré written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional
Fauré in 1887
The Ballets Russes presentation of Las Meninas, danced to Fauré's Pavane
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Robert de Montesquiou
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Marie Joseph Robert Anatole, comte de Montesquiou-Fézensac was a French aesthete, Symbolist poet, painter, art collector, art interpreter, and dandy. He is reputed to have been the inspiration both fo
Pavane (Fauré)
…allowance for dancers). The words were inconsequential verses, à la Verlaine, on the romantic helplessness of man, written by the Countess's cousin, Robert de Montesquiou. Fauré wrote: The orchestral version was first performed at a Concert Lamoureux under the baton of Charles Lamoureux on 25 November 1888. Three days…
Photographed by Paul Nadar in 1895
Portrait of Robert, Count of Montesquiou-Fezensac by Henri Lucien Doucet (1879)
Arrangement in Black and Gold: Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac by Whistler, 1891–92
Portrait of the Count Robert de Montesquiou by Giovanni Boldini, 1897