![]() ![]() Fauré’s output for the piano spanned many decades of his career, from the 1860s to almost his death in 1924. Lending even more difficulty was the fact that Fauré was also ambidextrous and equally inclined to place a melody in the left hand as in the right, or in notes alternating between the two. ![]() On one occasion, the great Franz Liszt, while attempting to perform a piece by Fauré, remarked that he had “run out of fingers.” For much of his career, Fauré was an organist, and though the piano was his medium of choice for keyboard music, he nonetheless wrote with a proclivity towards the fingerings and idioms more comfortable for an organist than a pianist. Like his predecessor, this influence of Classicism by no means meant his works for piano were easy to perform. Though numbered among the first Romantics, Chopin considered himself a Classicist though a prime example of late French Romanticism, Fauré often tempered his works with a Classical restraint. All rights reserved.Second only to Robert Schumann in Fauré’s admiration was Frédéric Chopin, and the influence of the Polish expatriate can be seen in the selection of titles Fauré employed in his piano music: Nocturne, Barcarolle, and Impromptu.
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