 He was given a state funeral at the Église de la Madeleine and is buried in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.After Fauré's death, the Conservatoire abandoned his radicalism and became resistant to new trends in music, with Fauré's own harmonic practice being held up as the farthest limit of modernity, beyond which students should not go.His successor, Henri Rabaud, director of the Conservatoire from 1922 to 1941, declared "modernism is the enemy".