Gabriel Fauré was a church organist as well as a composition teacher at the National Conservatoire of Paris. His first compositions were romantic but then he searched for a music turned into movement and grace. His main work includes more than 100 melodies (such as la Bonne Chanson (1892) and l’Horizon chimérique (1922), numerous piano works and chamber music (mainly trio and quartet with piano), a Requiem (1887), some staging music (Pelléas et Mélisande – 1898, Masques et Bergamasques – 1920), as well as one opera : Pénélope, composed in 1913.
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