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Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) Élegie & Andante
00:00 Élégie, Op. 24 (2024 Remastered, Studio 1962)
06:55 Andante (Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 117) (2024 Remastered, Studio 1962)
14:32 Andante (Cello Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 109) (2024 Remastered, Studio 1962)

Cello: Paul Tortelier
Piano: Jean Hubeau
Recorded in 1962
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The elegy was initially a song of mourning and referred to a metrical form. In antiquity, it was a poem composed in elegiac couplets (pairs of lines; one dactylic hexameter and one pentameter). In a broader sense, the elegy is a gentle and plaintive, melancholic poetry. The elegiac generally involves a great deal of subjectivity (use of "I"), a funeral tone, and lyricism. These literary characteristics are also found in music. One thinks of Beethoven's "Elegiac Song for Four Voices," Op. 118 (1814), composed on the occasion of the death of his friend Pasqualati.

Fauré wanted to use the theme of the Elegy for the central movement of a sonata for cello and piano. The original score was created in 1883 by its dedicatee, the cellist Jules Loeb. The success was immediate. Both a lament and a funeral march, it employs the key of C minor. Since the tonal system has existed, many musicians, writers, and philosophers have sought to distinguish keys and categorize them according to their affective power. In his "Rules of Composition," Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704) describes the energy of different modes: "if C major is cheerful and warlike; in C minor, the atmosphere, the ethos, is dark and sad...”

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