Piano music of Gabriel Fauré
The French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924) wrote in many genres, including songs, chamber music, orchestral pieces, and choral works. His compositions for piano, written between the 1860s and the 1920s, include some of his best known works.
Fauré in 1907
Gabriel Fauré in 1875
Fauré by John Singer Sargent, 1896
Title page of the Ninth nocturne, 1908
Gabriel Urbain Fauré 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. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, Sicilienne, nocturnes for piano and the songs "Après un rêve" and "Clair de lune". 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 more harmonically and melodically complex style.
Fauré in 1907
Fauré as a student, 1864
Staff and students of the École Niedermeyer, 1871. Fauré in front row second from left; André Messager in middle row second from right
Fauré in 1875