Solo Guitar - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.899154
Composed by Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Rod Whittle. Romantic Period. Individual part. 7 pages. Maggie Creek Music #6213355. Published by Maggie Creek Music (A0.899154).
For solo classical guitar; tremolo; 7 pp
GABRIEL FAURÉ 1845 – 1924
Fauré was a French composer and organist, and a distinguished teacher who taught composition to some of France's most famous musicians, including Ravel. He was also director of the Paris Conservatory for 15 years (1905 -1920). He wrote many songs and short piano pieces, and a number of longer orchestral works, among them 'Pavane', Ballade for piano and orchestra, and Requiem. At its heart Fauré's music is the essence of French lyricism. Unforced and beguiling, its fine melodies and counter melodies invest the harmonic structures with subtle shifts to form a delicately balanced idiom.
The lovely themes and counterpoints of the Cantique de Jean Racine suit the tremolo style. The Cantique (Chant), Op. 11, was composed in 1865 when Faure was a nineteen-year-old student at the École Niedermeyer de Paris, winning him first prize. The text had been translated from a Latin hymn by Jean Racine in 1688.
