Gabriel Fauré: Complete Works for Violin and Piano

Featuring

Matthias Lingenfelder
Peter Orth
Gabriel Fauré

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Composer Biography

Fauré taught famous composers like Maurice Ravel, Charles Koechlin, George Enescu, and Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Conservatoire, encouraging their musical free-spiritedness.

Instruments

Matthias Lingenfelder plays a Stradivari violin from 1722 that previously belonged to the renowned violinist Joseph Joachim.

Performer Biography

Matthias Lingenfelder, the violinist on this album, was a co-founder of the Auryn Quartet in 1981, which became a leading string quartet for 41 years.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Fauré's music is characterized by an abundance of melody, masterful harmony, form, and texture, possessing a slight melancholy and oscillating between light and dark.

Historical Context

The Société Nationale de Musique, founded by Saint-Saëns in 1871 as a reaction to the Franco-German War, provided a crucial forum for a new generation of French composers, including Fauré.

Composer Biography

Fauré's encounter with Camille Saint-Saëns, who taught piano at his school, was a seminal moment, influencing Fauré's interest in chamber and symphonic music.

Composer Biography

Gabriel Fauré, though overshadowed by younger contemporaries, is a central pioneer of French chamber music and shaped the French art song, the mélodie.