Piano music of Gabriel Fauré
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The French composer Gabriel Fauré wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and choral works. His compositions for piano, written between the 1860s and the 1920s, includ
Fauré in 1907
Gabriel Fauré in 1875
Fauré by John Singer Sargent, 1896
Title page of the Nocturne No. 9, 1908
Dolly (Fauré)
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The Dolly Suite, Op. 56, is a collection of pieces for piano duet by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of six short pieces, written or revised between 1893 and 1896, to mark the birthdays and other events in
Piano music of Gabriel Fauré
…sans paroles, Ballade in F♯ major, Mazurka in B♭ major, Thème et variations in C♯ minor, and Huit pièces brèves. For piano duet, Fauré composed the Dolly Suite and, together with his friend and former pupil André Messager, an exuberant parody of Wagner in the short suite Souvenirs de Bayreuth. Much of Fauré's…
Fauré in the 1890s
Fauré and Mlle Lombard in 1913