In 1918, the French composer Gabriel Fauré turned 73. He had managed to combine a life of teaching, performing and writing music. He was simultaneously organist at the famed Madeleine church in Paris ...

There’s not a note of the music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) that isn’t lovely. It’s true. With some composers you have to put up with some tedious rough for some glorious smooth but with Fauré it’s ...

Professor of Musicology Carlo Caballero remembers when he fell in love with the music of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): “It was when I heard his ‘Requiem’ as an undergrad at Pomona College [in southern ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Personally I can’t listen to music with lyrics; they’re too distracting.

Franz Schubert, the quintessential composer of art song, wrote more than 600 songs. The exquisite mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and Artistic Director Gloria Chien will perform selections from Schubert’s ...

The French composer Gabriel Fauré was born in Pamiers, south of Toulouse, in May 1845. That was the year when Wagner’s Tannhäuser premiered in Dresden and Wallace’s Maritana premiered in London, and ...

A recently discovered piano duet composed by Gabriel Fauré written around 1870 sold for £20,000 at world renowned Sotherby's Auction House, London. Fauré 's newly discovered manuscript was sold by ...

In partnership with La Maison Française at New York University, the Department of French and Italian Studies at Princeton University, Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse and the ...

The work of the imagination consists of attempting to formulate all that one wants that is best, everything that goes beyond reality,’ Fauré wrote to his son Philippe, in August 1908. ‘To my mind art, ...

Jae S. Lee - Staff Photographer Benjamin Rivinius (front) and Dirk Mommertz (top left) performed onstage with the Fauré Piano Quartet during Monday’s concert, presented by the Dallas Chamber Music ...