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

He was one of the leading French composers of his generation, and although his best-known and most accessible compositions were his earliest, many of his best-loved works were composed in his later years, in a more harmonically and melodically complex style.

 

Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saëns, who became a lifelong friend.

 

Did you know?

When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of Fauré's death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being heard.