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Gabriel Fauré

Often confined to the chamber music of Parisian salons, Gabriel Fauré demonstrated his aptitude for all forms, as evidenced by his Requiem, alongside a leading career in the church and at the conservatory. Gabriel Urbain Fauré, the son of a schoolteacher, was born in Pamiers, Ariège, on May 12, 1845. His musical vocation began to take shape at an early age, as he listened to the harmonium in the chapel at Montgauzy, near Foix, where his father had become school principal. So much so that, at just nine years of age, he was sent to Paris to study at the classical and religious musi...