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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Alexandre Millerand, Andre Messager, Annabella (actress), Anna Gould, Berthe Morisot, Claude Debussy, Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu, Dieudonne Costes, Edgar Faure, Edouard Manet, Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases, Fernandel, Francis Bouygues, Gabrielle Rejane, Gabriel Faure, Gabriel Hanotaux, Georges Mandel, George Mikhailovich, Count Brasov, Ghislaine Dommanget, Gholam Hossein Jahanshahi, Haroun Tazieff, Henri Bernstein, Henri Farman, Herve Alphand, James Gordon Bennett, Jr., Jean-Louis Barrault, Jean-Pierre Wimille, Jeanne Julia Bartet, Jean Giraudoux, Leila Pahlavi, Louis-Ernest Barrias, Madeleine Renaud, Marcel Dassault, Marcel Renault, Marie Bashkirtseff, Maurice Gamelin, Maurice Genevoix, Maurice Rostand, Maxime Dethomas, Michel Droit, Natalia Brasova, Octave Mirbeau, Passy Cemetery, Paul Hervieu, Paul Landowski, Pearl White, Renee Vivien, Tristan Bernard. Excerpt: Gabriel Urbain Faure (French: 12 May 1845 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th-century composers. Among his best-known works are his Pavane, Requiem, nocturnes for piano and the songs "Apres un reve" and "Clair de lune." Although his best-known and most accessible compositions are generally his earlier ones, Faure composed many of his greatest works in his later years, in a harmonically and melodically much more complex style. Faure was born into a cultured but not especially musical family. His talent became clear when he was a small boy. At the age of nine, he was sent to a music college in Paris, where he was trained to be a church organist and choirmaster. Among his teachers was Camille Saint-Saens, who became a lifelong friend. After graduating from the college in 1865, Faure earned a modest living as an organist and teacher, leaving him little time for composition. When he became successful in his middle age, holding the important posts of organist of the Eglise de la Madeleine and director of the Paris Conservatoire, he still lacked time for composing; he retreated to the countryside in the summer holidays to concentrate on composition. By his last years, Faure was recognised in France as the leading French composer of his day. An unprecedented national musical tribute was held for him in Paris in 1922, headed by the president of the French Republic. Outside France, Faure's music took decades to become widely accepted, except in Britain, where he had many admirers during his lifetime. Faure's music has been described as linking the end of Romanticism with the modernism of the second quarter of the 20th century. When he was born, Chopin was still composing, and by the time of Faure's death, jazz and the atonal music of the Second Viennese School were being heard. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, which descr
