- Fauré composed this work for cello and piano in 1880, then orchestrated it c.1896.1
- Camille Saint-Saëns hosted weekly musical Salon gatherings on Mondays in his Paris home.2 This Elégié fits the description of a new piece by Fauré which was introduced on June 21, 1880 at Saint-Saëns’ salon, where it was a great success.3
- Fauré originally intended this to be the slow movement of an entire cello sonata, but in 1883 he decided to publish it alone instead with the title Elégié.4
Sources
- Jean-Michel Nectoux, “Fauré, Gabriel,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed September 26, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000009366.
- Graham Johnson, liner notes to Songs by Camille Saint-Saëns, François Le Roux, Graham Johnson, Hyperion A66856, CD, 1997.
- Jean-Michel Nectoux, trans. Roger Nichols, Gabriel Fauré: A Musical Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 88.
- Ibid.
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