His output for piano includes 13 nocturnes, five impromptus, and a pair of works, Berceuse and Elegie, for piano and violin.
His output for piano includes 13 nocturnes, five impromptus, and a pair of works, Berceuse and Elegie, for piano and violin. His Masques et Bergamasques is written for orchestra alone, and his two operas Promethee and Penelope were not big hits. He wrote incidental music for Pelleas and Melisande, but this student of Louis Niedermeyer and Saint-Saens is much more well known for works like "After a Dream" and "The Roses of Isphahan" which depict his mastery of the song cycle. As director of the Conservatoire this teacher of Ravel and Boulanger produced a famous Requiem for his deceased father, FTP, identify this composer of La Bonne Chanson.
His output for piano includes 13 nocturnes, five impromptus, and a pair of works, Berceuse and Elegie, for piano and violin.
Gabriel Urbain Faure