Acrylic on canvas

Signature on the back

30 x 30 x 1.6 cm.

12 x 12 x 0.6 inch.

Unique

 

Celebrities of Occitanie Collection

Gabriel Fauré was born while Chopin was still composing. He died as jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were taking hold.

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In between, he became one of the leading French composers of his generation — taught by Camille Saint-Saëns, who remained a lifelong friend. His most celebrated works came late, in a style of growing harmonic and melodic complexity that his earlier, more accessible pieces had given no warning of.

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Most composers peak early and coast. Fauré got harder to understand as he got older.

 His admirers followed anyway.