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d. 1924 France
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French Romantic 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.
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To know an art really well, one must know everything about it, both its origins and its development.
At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)
For me art and music especially consists of raising ourselves as high as possible above that which is.
At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)
Imagining is trying to formulate all one would wish to be better, all that surpasses reality.
At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)
But Lortat, I'm not in the habit of attracting crowds.
Only it cannot be done any faster.
At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963)
And I always enjoy seeing sunlight play on the rocks, the water, the trees and plains. What variety of effects, what brilliance and what softness... I wish my music could show as much diversity.
How many times have I asked myself what use music is? And what am I translating? What feelings? What ideas? How can I express something I do not understand myself?
As to the piece I have started, it will only be the fiftieth or more of my piano pieces that, with rare exceptions, pianists allow to pile up without playing, That has been their lot for twenty years."
Now, there are some periods of music, some pitches of which I can hear nothing... of my music as well as of others. I feel that there is on my shoulders nothing more than a terrible cloak of misery and discouragement.
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