French composer who served as organist at the fashionable and prestigious church of the Madeleine, where Saint-Saens had been before him.
MaryIronically, Fauré was not a particularly religious man who preferred to write songs and piano music, which makes his Requiem Mass remarkable
MaryA composer, who in his later years grew increasingly hard of hearing and for this reason resigned as Director of the Paris Conservatory.
MaryFauré's loss of hearing and deafness was managed to be kept as a secret from all but his closest friends until the day he died.
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