The Lyric Duo's
Online Study Guide
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Famous musicians we will share with you in our program
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Gabriel Fauré
Beethoven was not the only composer to go deaf and still continue composing.
In France there lived a man named Gabriel Fauré (pronounced 4A) who also went deaf as he grew older. And, just as Beethoven, he never stopped writing music. And Fauré loved paintings, and wrote many songs that are based on the paintings of Antoine Watteau. The poem in this song is inspired by one of Watteau’s paintings. One painting shows a person playing a mandolin and singing in the evening, when the moon and the stars were shining.
Fauré was born on May 12th, 1845. He was very active as a performer as well as a teacher. He was appointed a professor at the Paris Conservatory in 1905.
He died on November 4th, 1924.
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Gabriel Faure
as a young man.