Chosen by O.M. Faure6/22/2023 ![]() ![]() In November, however, disaster struck when Marianne, with whom Fauré was deeply in love, broke off their engagement, and his friend and mentor Camille Saint-Saëns took him to Weimar in the hope of taking his mind off his troubles. Turgenev, who knew Marianne well and was favourably disposed towards Gabriel, was one of the match-makers. In July he became engaged to Marianne Viardot, the daughter of Pauline Viardot, a famous mezzo-soprano who in her youth had been courted (unsuccessfully) by Alfred de Musset and Ivan Turgenev. The year 1877 was very much a mixed bag for Fauré: in January he achieved public recognition for the first time – but with a violin sonata, not a song. The story so far: after his participation in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Gabriel began to suffer periodic bouts of depression. This photograph was taken in 1887, the year he composed his Pavane. In this particular blog we will be examining the songs Fauré wrote between 18. ![]() Previous instalments have focused on the songs of Reynaldo Hahn, Debussy’s earlier and later vocal works, and Fauré’s earlier chansons. With this, the fifth instalment in our series of articles on composers who wrote chansons – French art songs – we continue our exploration of the songs of Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924), this time covering his middle period. ![]()
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