Faure

(for), J. Bapt., Moulins, Allier, Jan. 15, 1830—Paris, Nov. 9, 1914; 1841, Paris Cons.; choir-boy at the Madeleine, and studied with Trevaux; took 1st prize for comic opera; 1852-76, at the Op. Com. as leading barytone with great succ.; 1857, teacher in the Cons.; after 1876 sang in concert; pub. ‘“‘L’ Art du Chant’; c. songs, etc. Fauré (f6-ra), Gabriel Urbain, Pamiers, Ariége, May 13, 1845—Paris, Nov. 4, 1924; eminent French composer; pupil of Niedermayer, Dietsch, and Saint-Saéns; 1866, organist at Rennes, then at St.-Sulpice and St.-Honoré; 1885 took Prix Chartier for chamber music; 1896 organist at the Madeleine, and prof. of comp., cpt., and fugue at the Cons. (vice Ma enet); 1905-20, he became director; c. music to “‘ Prométhée’”’ (Béziers, 1900), “Julius Caesar” (1905), “‘Pelléas et Mélisande,’’ 1898; orch. suite, 1901; also much chamber music, and religious choruses, piano pieces and many highly important songs; i-act opera ‘“L’Organiste”’ (1887); ‘‘La Nai ance de Venus,” for soli, chorus, and orch.; “Cheur de Djinns’; requiem; symphony; vin.-concerto; orchestral suite; 2 pf.quartets; EHlégie, for ’cello; Berceuse and Romance, for vin. and orch., a vin.-sonata, etc.; 1909, elected to French Académie; 1910, commander, Legion of Honour. Memoirs pub. by Séré and Vuillemin.