As professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory, his pupils included Ravel and Nadia Boulanger,  and later, as director, he was responsible for broadening the Conservatory's curriculum to include both  modern and medieval music. Much of his own work bears a strong medieval influence, particularly La  Bonne Chanson, a song-cycle based on Verlaine's poetry, which intro
As professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory, his pupils included Ravel and Nadia Boulanger,  and later, as director, he was responsible for broadening the Conservatory's curriculum to include both  modern and medieval music. Much of his own work bears a strong medieval influence, particularly La  Bonne Chanson, a song-cycle based on Verlaine's poetry, which introduced ancient church modes to  modern music. FTP, name this composer of the opera Penelope, whose most famous work is a Requiem.
As professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory, his pupils included Ravel and Nadia Boulanger,  and later, as director, he was responsible for broadening the Conservatory's curriculum to include both  modern and medieval music.
Gabriel Faure