Gabriel Fauré

Person · Open Library

Born

1877

Died

1962

Works

36

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1845-05-12

Active to

1924-11-04

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

961,560

Total plays

8,388,431

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, often seen as a transitional figure between the Romantic period and Impressionism. In contrast with his harmonic and melodic style, which pushed the bounds for his time, Fauré’s rhythmic motives tended to be subtle and repetitive, with little to break the flow of the line, although he did utilize subtle large scale syncopations, similar to those found in the works of Johannes Brahms. Aaron Copland referred to him as the

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The Genome Analysis Toolkit: A MapReduce framework for analyzing next-generation DNA sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 25,632x

2. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,048x

3. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,410x

4. End-to-End Object Detection with Transformers

   · 2020 · cited 12,738x

5. SWISS-MODEL: homology modelling of protein structures and complexes

   · 2018 · cited 12,088x

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Quotes

• “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.”
• “Gabriel Fauré, repeating a thought he had often expressed to me, wrote in a letter on the 2nd August 1910: "In piano music one cannot use padding; one must pay in cash so that it is interesting all the time. It is perhaps the most difficult genre if you want to be as satisfying as possible," and he added modestly, "and I do my best." Then, as if in reply to some unjust reproach, "Only it cannot be done any faster."”
• “But Lortat, I'm not in the habit of attracting crowds.”
• “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."”
• “As for my work, I can say that it reaches its end. [...] I do not want my Quartet to be published and played before it has been tried out in front of my friends, who have always been the first to hear my works: Dukas, Poujaud, Lalo, de Lallemand. I trust their judgment and it is to them that I leave the decision of whether this Quartet should be published or destroyed.”
• “When I am no more, you will hear said of my work: "After all, it is only so much..." You will detach yourself from it, perhaps ... All that has no importance. I have done what I could ... and so, judge, my God.”

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Wikidata facts

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