Gabriel Fauré
France, 1865–1924
French composer (1845-1924) working in an understated idiom. The Requiem, the nocturnes and the songs use sliding, ambiguous harmony that links Romanticism to 20th-century French music.
MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced Gabriel Fauré and 2 artists Gabriel Fauré influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.
Who influenced Gabriel Fauré?
- Camille Saint-Saëns — Saint-Saëns was Fauré's teacher at the École Niedermeyer and lifelong mentor — he introduced him to contemporary music and secured his early posts.
- Frédéric Chopin — Chopin's nocturnes and barcarolles are the direct ancestors of Fauré's own — the genre titles and pianistic idiom are inherited outright.
Which artists did Gabriel Fauré influence?
- Maurice Ravel — Ravel studied composition under Fauré at the Conservatoire; his teacher's elegance, clarity and harmonic refinement shaped Ravel's language, and Ravel dedicated works to him.
- Nadia Boulanger — Fauré was Boulanger's composition teacher at the Paris Conservatoire and the aesthetic she transmitted to her hundreds of pupils.