OTD in Music History: Important composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue Gabriel Urbain Faure (1845 – 1924) dies in Paris. Faure was hailed in his lifetime as one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many important 20th-century composers -- a number of whom actually studied with him at the Paris Conservatory. Among his best-known works are his "Pavane" (1887), "Requiem" (1890), and "Sicilienne" (1893), as well as the long and masterful series of "melodies" (or French art songs) that he composed throughout his career. A modern assessment of Faure in "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians" (2001) notes that "Faure's stature as a composer has been undiminished by the passage of time . . . He developed a musical idiom all his own . . . by subtle application of old modes, he evoked the aura of eternally fresh art; by using unresolved mild discords and special coloristic effects, he anticipated procedures of Impressionism; . . . [and] the precisely articulated melodic line of his songs is in the finest tradition of French vocal music . . ." Music critic Robert Orledge offers another assessment: "Faure's genius was fundamentally one of synthesis: he reconciled such opposing elements as modality and tonality, anguish and serenity, seduction and force, within a single cohesive and non-eclectic style . . . The quality of constant renewal even within an apparently limited range is a remarkable facet of his genius, and the spare, elliptical style of his [very late] String Quartet (1924) suggests that his intensely self-disciplined style was still developing [even] at the time of his death [at the age of nearly 80]." PICTURED: A first edition of the tenor version of Faure's "20 Melodies for Singer and Piano," published in Paris in 1879. Faure has signed and inscribed this copy to an admirer.

Os gusta la música clásica pero no lo sabéis:

Satie, Fauré, Satie, Fauré... No se cual os gusta más. Vamos a suponer que hoy tenéis cuerpo para escuchar la Sicilenne de Faure. Esta pieza introduce la escena de la fuente donde Mélisande pierde su anillo de bodas en el agua.

*https://youtu.be/yCAD-jdPieU

Sicilienne, Op. 78 (Fauré) - Panorama Jazz Band

My sister-in-law is starting ballet and she wants me to give her one or two classes before her first class so she doesn't look like she doesn't know anything at all, so naturally I agreed. I was excited that she's starting ballet and love talking about it, but I never expected I would have SO MUCH FUN making combinations. I've come up with so many over the past day or so and can't stop lol. Picking the music is so fun, I'm using music I love dancing to, and then creating a combination to the music is just amazing. Some might be a bit....challenging for a beginner beginner, but I think that's a good thing!

This is the music and what combination each piece goes with!

Warm Up: Chopin's Nocturne Op. 9 no. 2 (obviously)

Plies: The Shire theme from Lord of the Rings

Tendu and degage share music: Faure's Pelleas and Melisandre Sicilienne

Rond de jambes: Ashokan Farewell

Frappes: Solor's variation

Adagio at barre: Gadfly Romance

Grand Battements: Habanera from Carmen

Tendu in center: Tchaikovsky's piano concerto number 1 (duh)

Balances/Waltz: Swan Lake waltz

Petit allegro: Lord of the Rings surprise

Reverance: Nikiya's death

@ The flautist I heard practicing after symphony rehearsal this past Tuesday

I know ur never gonna see my Tumblr or this post but omg Faure's Sicilienne is one of my favorite pieces and u are doing GREAT lemme hear the recital 👀

just want to fall in love w/ a tall cellist who can play the piano/cello duet sicilienne by gabriel faure with me

Officially learning sicilienne by faure because of Chuck McGill

https://youtu.be/U5Y0uQLgriA

I’m learning a new song on the keyboard! It is one of my absolute favorite songs ever, and youtube has one of those tutorials, so here I am learning it. It took me 30+ minutes to learn the first 20ish seconds, but some day I will play this entire song and it will be glorious

Classical music to listen to based on your interests

(yes, I made another list.  sue me.  i’m all for spreading classical music awareness.  feel free to add to this list.)

If you like facts and logic - literally anything by Bach

If you like roasting people - “Leck mich im Arsch” by Mozart

If you like politics - Sinfonia Eroica (Symphony No. 3) by Beethoven

If you like invading other countries - “Ride of the Valkyries” by Wagner

If you like showing off - “Caprice No. 24″ by Paganini

If you like nature - “Finlandia” by Sibelius

If you like dancing - Slavonic Dances by Dvorak

If you like art - anything by Debussy

If you like reading - Scheherazade by Rimsky-Korsakov

If you’re classy - “The Blue Danube” by Strauss

If you like history - The Water Music by Handel

If you’re religious - A German Requiem by Brahms

If you like Star Wars/Star Trek - The Planets by Holst

If you like “All By Myself” - Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff

If you like crying your eyes out - “Nimrod” by Elgar

If you like the zoo - The Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens

If you like jazz - Jazz Suite No. 2, “Waltz No. 2″ by Shostakovich

If you’re patriotic - New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9) by Dvorak

If you like satanic rituals - The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky

If you like the burning flames of hell - Requiem in D Minor by Mozart

If you like New York City - “Rhapsody in Blue” by Gershwin

If you like sleep - “Sicilienne” by Faure

If you like Halloween - “Danse Macabre” by Saint-Saens

🎵 SONGS FOR GUYS WHO WEAR KNIT TIES 🎵 (EXPANDED EDITION)

season 1

Little Patch of Heaven—Crossroads  |  T’ain’t What You Do (It’s The Way That You Do It)—Billy May  |  Blue Skies—Ella Fitzgerald  |  Donatella—Lady Gaga  |  Bad Guy—The Interrupters  |  Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood—Jamie Cullum & Gregory Porter

season 2

Sicilienne—Gabriel Faure  |  Pound of Flesh—The 4onthefloor  |  Good Advice—Fever High  |  Fashionable—Cold War Kids  |  The Man Machine—Kraftwerk

season 3

Blue Skies—Art Tatum  |  A Piacere—Nicholas Britell  |  The Friends’ Song—Mark Knopfler  |  Andantino for Brass and Orchestra—Nicholas Britell  |  Get Yourself Another Fool—Sam Cooke  |  Ringless—Sofi Tukker

season 4

A Sunday Smile—Beirut  |  Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out—Sam Cooke  |  911—Lady Gaga  |  My Dog’s Eyes—Zammuto  |  All Good Things—Caoimhin O’Raghallaigh

season 5

Blue Skies—Willie Nelson  |  Carry Me Away—John Mayer  |  The Man—The Killers  |  Piece of Me—Britney Spears

season 6

Why Don’tcha Do Me Right?—Frank Zappa | Cheryl—Charlie Parker  |  Get Yourself Another Fool—Charles Brown

It took like six tries but here’s the nice haunted castle music (I severely fucked up the ending excuse that)

(It’s Sicilienne by Gabriel Faure)

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Gabriel Faure. Sicilienne.

Fauré: Pelléas et Mélisande / Sokhiev · Berliner Philharmoniker

elegance 🖤

Sicilienne, Op. 78: Andantino by Gabriel Faure! i really like the orchestral arrangement performed by the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra :-)

some related suggestions (because i can’t just Not recommend metal to you) are Wing-Shaped Heart by Visions of Atlantis and Lost In Your Eyes by Heavenly 💖

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5Y0uQLgriA)