Gabriel Faure

Fauré was born in Pamiers, Ariège, Midi-Pyrénées, to Toussaint-Honoré Fauré and Marie-Antoinette-Hélène Lalène-Laprade. The youngest child of a large brood, he was sent to live with a wet nurse until he was four years old. At the age of nine he was sent off again, this time to Paris to study at the École Niedermeyer, a school which prepared church organists and choir directors. Fauré biographer Jessica Duchen suggests that these forced

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