Fauré wrote with long, sinuous melodic lines and delicately shifting harmonies to create music with an exquisite, unique sound.
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Composition Highlights

Title Year Avg. Duration Genre
Pelléas et Mélisande, incidental music and suite for orchestra, Op. 80 1898 17:31 Orchestral
Pavane, for orchestra & chorus ad lib in F sharp minor, Op. 50 1887 05:55 Choral
Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor, Op. 45 1885 33:54 Chamber Music
Requiem, for 2 solo voices, chorus, organ & orchestra, Op. 48 1887 35:58 Choral
Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, Op. 115 1919 32:47 Chamber Music
Impromptu for harp in D flat major, Op. 86 1904 08:43 Chamber Music
Après un rêve ("Dans un sommeil"), song for voice & piano, Op. 7/1 1877 03:06 Vocal Music
Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15 1876 30:39 Chamber Music
Dolly, suite for piano, 4 hands or orchestra, Op. 56 1893 14:33 Keyboard
Cantique de Jean Racine, for 4-part chorus & organ (or orchestra), Op. 11 1865 05:24 Choral
La Bonne chanson, song cycle for voice & piano (or string quintet & piano), Op. 61 1892 21:41 Vocal Music
L'horizon chimérique, song cycle (4) for voice & piano, Op. 118 1921 07:08 Vocal Music
Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 1922 20:02 Chamber Music
Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 1890 30:25 Chamber Music
Masques et bergamasques, suite for orchestra, Op. 112 1919 14:06 Orchestral
Ballade for piano & orchestra (or piano solo) in F sharp major, Op. 19 1881 13:52 Concerto
Préludes (9) for piano, Op. 103 1909 23:28 Keyboard
Clair de lune, song for voice & piano (or orchestra) in B flat minor, Op. 46/2 1887 02:58 Vocal Music
Berceuse, for violin & piano (or orchestra) in D major, Op. 16 1879 03:48 Concerto Chamber Music
Élégie for cello & piano or orchestra in C minor, Op. 24 1880 06:49 Concerto Chamber Music
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