Product Description
For solo classical guitar; tremolo; 7 pp
GABRIEL FAURÉ
1845 1924
Fauré
was a French composer and organist, and a distinguished teacher who
taught composition to some of France's most famous musicians,
including Ravel. He was also director of the Paris Conservatory for
15 years (1905 -1920). He wrote many songs and short piano pieces,
and a number of longer orchestral works, among them 'Pavane', Ballade
for piano and orchestra, and Requiem. At its heart Fauré's music is
the essence of French lyricism. Unforced and beguiling, its fine
melodies and counter melodies invest the harmonic structures with
subtle shifts to form a delicately balanced idiom.
The
lovely themes and counterpoints of the Cantique de Jean Racine suit the tremolo style. The
Cantique (Chant), Op. 11, was composed in 1865 when Faure was a
nineteen-year-old student at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, winning
him first prize. The text had been translated from a Latin hymn by
Jean Racine in 1688.
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