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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Composer of the Week: Gabriel Faure (1845-1924): Episode 4: Fauré: Belated Rewards

Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)

Episode 4

Episode 4: Fauré: Belated Rewards

Fauré: Belated Rewards

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Gabriel Faure (1845-1924), Fauré: Belated Rewards

Donald Macleod explores how Faure finally attained the job he had always sought.

Donald Macleod explores how Faure finally attained the job he had always sought - the directorship of the Paris Conservatoire. There, he masterminded the institution's reinvention.

The top brass did their best to keep him out, and it took a scandal to do it, but eventually Gabriel Fauré got the job which brought him the status and recognition he'd always wanted: directorship of the Paris Conservatoire. Donald Macleod makes his way to the very office where Fauré masterminded the institution's reinvention, joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure, with biographer Jessica Duchen

Donald Macleod charts the life and work of Gabriel Faure. He's joined by the composer's biographer Jessica Duchen, pianist Billy Eidi, and the leading authority on Faure's music, Jean-Michel Nectoux

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