 Composers from other countries also loved and admired Fauré.In the 1880s Tchaikovsky had thought him "adorable"; Albéniz and Fauré were friends and correspondents until the former's early death in 1909; Richard Strauss sought his advice; and in Fauré's last years, the young American Aaron Copland was a devoted admirer.The outbreak of the First World War almost stranded Fauré in Germany, where he had gone for his annual composing retreat.