Fauré - Piano Music

Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was one of the towering figures in French music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and greatly influenced many later composers world-wide. He was born in Pamiers in the south of France, but was sent to Paris at the age of nine, to study at the Ècole Niedermayer in Paris, with teachers including Camille Saint-Saëns. He later became a regular at the salons of Saint-Saëns, and also eventually succeeded his former teacher as choir master at the Èglise de la Madeleine.
In 1870, he served in the army during the Franco-Prussian War. Following a broken engagement in 1877, he went travelling, spending some time in Germany where he met Liszt and Wagner.
He married in 1883, continued to hold various positions and to compose songs and piano music, slowly developing his very personal and harmonically complex musical style.
At the age of fifty-one, he finally became chief organist at the Èglise de la Madeleine, and months later he was appointed composition teacher at the Paris Conservatoire, where his pupils included Maurice Ravel, Nadia Boulanger and George Enescu. In 1905 he became director of the Conservatoire in the aftermath of the scandal of the refusal of the Prix de Rome to Ravel.
He retired from the Conservatoire in 1920, mainly due to his increasing deafness, but continued composing until his death at 79.

Major works:
Choral music: Requiem
Other Vocal music: songs (Après un Rêve, En prière, Sylvia etc) and song cycles (La Bonne Chanson, Le Jardin Clos etc)
Piano music: Barcarolles, Nocturnes, Impromptus
Chamber music: Two Violin Sonatas, two Cello Sonatas, String Quartet, Piano Trio, Piano Quartet, two Piano Quintets
Orchestral: Ballade (piano and orchestra), Fantasie (piano and orchestra), Elégie (cello and orchestra), Berceuse (violin and orchestra), Masques et Bergamasques, incidental music for Pelléas et Mélisande

Fauré Piano Sheet Music

for digital devices or to download & print

Total pieces by Fauré: 60

ID:90
TitleKey YearLevel

All pieces:


Nocturnes

Nocturne 1 Op. 33 No. 1E-flat Minor 18758
Nocturne 2 Op. 33 No. 2B Major 18808
Nocturne 3 Op. 33 No. 3A-flat Major 18827
Nocturne 4 Op. 36E-flat Major 18848
Nocturne 5 Op. 37B-flat Major 18848+
Nocturne 6 Op. 63D-flat Major 18948
Nocturne 7 Op. 74C-sharp Minor 18988
Nocturne 8 Op. 84 No. 8D-flat Major 19027
Nocturne 9 Op. 97B Minor 19087
Nocturne 10 Op. 99E Minor 19088
Nocturne 11 Op. 104 No. 1F-sharp Minor 19137
Nocturne 12 Op. 107E Minor 19158
Nocturne 13 Op. 119 B Minor 1921

Barcarolles

Barcarolle 1 Op. 26A Minor 18808+
Barcarolle 2 Op. 41G Major 18858
Barcarolle 3 Op. 42G-flat Major 18858+
Barcarolle 4 Op. 44A-flat Major 18868
Barcarolle 5 Op. 66F-sharp Minor 18948+
Barcarolle 6 Op. 70E-flat Major 18968
Barcarolle 7 Op. 90D Minor 19057
Barcarolle 8 Op. 96D-flat Major 19068
Barcarolle 9 Op. 101A Minor 19097
Barcarolle 10 Op. 104 No. 2A Minor 19137
Barcarolle 11 Op. 105G Minor 19138
Barcarolle 12 Op. 106E-flat Major 19157
Barcarolle 13 Op. 116 C Major 1921

Impromptus

Impromptu 1 Op. 25E-flat Major 18818+
Impromptu 2 Op. 31F Minor 18838
Impromptu 3 Op. 34A-flat Major 18838
Impromptu 4 Op. 91D-flat Major 19068+
Impromptu 5 Op. 102F-sharp Minor 19098

Waltz-Caprices

Waltz-Caprice 1 Op. 30A Major 18838
Waltz-Caprice 2 Op. 38D-flat Major 18848
Waltz-Caprice 3 Op. 59G-flat Major 18938
Waltz-Caprice 4 Op. 62A-flat Major 18948

3 Romances sans paroles Op. 17

1. Romance sans paroles A-flat Major 1863
2. Romance sans paroles A Minor 1863
3. Romance sans paroles A-flat Major 1863

8 Pièces brèves Op. 84

1. Capriccio E-flat Major -
2. Fantasy A-flat Major -
3. Fugue A Minor -
4. Adagietto E Minor -
5. Improvisation C-sharp Minor -
6. Fugue E Minor -
7. Allegresse C Major -

Preludes Op. 103

1. Prelude D-flat Major 19116
2. Prelude C-sharp Minor 19118
3. Prelude G Minor 19116
4. Prelude F Major 19116
5. Prelude D Minor 19118
6. Prelude E-flat Minor 19116
7. Prelude A Major 19117
8. Prelude C Minor 19118
9. Prelude E Minor 19115

Miscellaneous pieces

Ballade - version for piano and orchestra Op. 19 F-sharp Major 1879
Ballade - version for piano solo Op. 19F-sharp Major 18818+
Mazurka Op. 32 B-flat Major 1875
Dolly - for four hands Op. 56 N/A 1896
Theme and Variations Op. 73 C-sharp Minor 1895
Fantaisie - for piano and orchestra Op. 111 G Major 1918