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Fauré

American  
[foh-rey] / foʊˈreɪ /

noun

  1. Gabriel Urbain 1845–1924, French composer.


Fauré British  
/ fore, ˈfɔːreɪ /

noun

  1. Gabriel ( Urbain ) (ɡabriɛl). 1845–1924, French composer and teacher, noted particularly for his song settings of French poems, esp those of Verlaine, his piano music, and his Messe de Requiem (1887)

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They had the music for the Fauré “Elegy,” and I did a bad job.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 28, 2019

Le Salon de Musiques The intimate chamber-music series continues with “French Romances,” a program of works for voice, strings and piano by Debussy, Fauré and Franck.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2019

The writer, who never publicly acknowledged his homosexuality, and Venezuelan-born Hahn, a musical child prodigy, shared a love of painting, literature and the French composer Fauré.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2018

St. Columba’s choir and orchestra will perform the “Requiem” by Gabriel Fauré.

From Washington Post • Nov. 11, 2016

But Debussy has not swerved nor hampered Ravel any more than has his master, Gabriel Fauré.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

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