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Article: Requiem pour soli, choeur et orchestre de chambre, op. 48. Version 1893.
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Gabriel Faure was once popularly known as the "French Brahms" due to the large body of piano and chamber music he composed, even though he spent forty years of his long life making his living as a church musician. By the late 1880s Faure found that his position as choirmaster at the wealthy, fashionable, and conservative Church of the Madeleine had become humdrum and complained "I've had funerals up to here" (p. v). In January 1888, for the services of a highly placed parishioner, Faure took the opportunity to do something different and used a five-movement Requiem he had written "just for fun" over the previous months. The vicar frowned upon his novel approach and ...
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