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In his early years, Gabriel Fauré had a reputation as a writer of small pieces. He had invariably failed with all his large-scale projects until in 1887 he created Requiem.
A few years later, he wrote in the Comoedia magazine: “As to my Requiem, perhaps I have also instinctively sought to escape from what is thought right and proper, after all the years of accompanying burial services on the organ! I know it all by heart. I wanted to write something different.”
What exactly did Gabriel Fauré do “differently”, and why? This is what the lecture by a musicologist and an associate professor in the Department of General Music History at the Moscow State Conservatory Anna Bulycheva is going to be about.