Composer | Fauré, Gabriel (1845 - 1924) | ||
Instrumentation | Viola and Harp | ||
Sheet central | Larmes; Au cimetière; Spleen; La rose (2 sheet music) | ||
Style | Romantic | ||
Arranger | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||
Publisher | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||
Date | 1888 | ||
Copyright | Public Domain | ||
Added by magataganm, 02 Aug 2014
Fauré was born in Pamiers, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées,
in the south of France, the fifth son and youngest of
six children of Toussaint-Honoré Fauré (1810--85) and
Marie-Antoinette-Hélène Lalène-Laprade
(1809-87).
As a young man Fauré had been very cheerful; a friend wrote of his "youthful, even somewhat child-like, mirth." From his thirties he suffered bouts of depression, which he described as "spleen", possibly first caused by his broken engagement and his lack of success as a c...(+) |