GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924)

Fauré was a pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns. After his first years in Rennes, he worked in Paris from 1870 as an organist, director of music and music teacher – he was a teacher at the conservatoire and later became its director. With his works and by his pupils – Koechlin, Ravel and Boulanger et al. – he exerted important influence on the french music around 1900. His works show considerable neo-classical tendencies as well as a lyric, pliable harmony, which prepared the ground for the impressionism.