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7 Fauré scores on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.

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Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)

French composer who spent decades as a church organist and choirmaster to pay the bills while composing some of the most quietly refined music of his era, only achieving real recognition late in life when he became director of the Paris Conservatoire, from where he taught and championed a generation of younger composers, Ravel among them. His Requiem set out deliberately to avoid the fire-and-brimstone drama of the form, aiming instead, in his own words, for something more like "a lullaby of death." He kept composing even through severe hearing loss and near-total deafness in his final years, guided entirely by his inner ear.

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The easiest Fauré on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.

Libera Me Domine D minor · 4 min Fauré Gabriel - Cinq Mélodies Op. 58 No. 5 - Cest lextase D♭ major · 3 min Fauré Gabriel - 4 Mélodies Op. 51 No. 2 - Au cimetière D minor · 4 min RomancesSansParoles 3 A♭ major · 2 min Fauré Gabriel - Cinq Mélodies Op. 58 No. 4 - A Clymène D minor · 4 min O Lord Our Lord (Cantique de Jean Racine) C major · 5 min Nocturne No. 6.(G.Fauré Op. 63) D♭ major · 9 min

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