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Violin Sonata no. 2 e minor op. 108
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About the Composer

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Gabriel Fauré

Representative exponent of French music around 1900. His creative work is centered around the art song, piano music (nocturnes, barcarolles, impromptus, valse-caprice), and chamber music – alongside other genres.

1845Born in Pamiers (Ariège) on May 12, the son of a primary school teacher.
1854–65Attends the École de musique classique et religieuse (founded by L. Niedermeyer), where liturgical musicians were educated; lessons with Saint-Saëns (from 1861).
1866–70Organist at the church of Saint-Sauveur in Rennes.
1871After occupying various organist positions in Paris, he becomes assistant organist to Saint-Saëns at Saint-Sulpice. He numbers among the founding members of the Société nationale de musique. Performances of his works in their concerts.
1874Premiere of his “Suite d’orchestre” in F major (“Symphony No. 1”), which is a compilation of existing pieces.
1875/76Violin Sonata No. 1 in A major, Op. 13.
1876–79Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, Op. 15
1877Maître de chapelle at Paris’s Église de la Madeleine.
1876/78Premiere of his choral work “Les Djinns,” Op. 12.
from 1879Attends performances of Wagner’s music; in his own compositions he distances himself from Wagner.
1885Premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in D minor, later destroyed.
1887/88Requiem, Op. 48.
1891“Cinq Mélodies ‘de Venise’,” Op. 58, on texts by Verlaine.
1892–94“La bonne chanson,” Op. 61, on texts by Verlaine.
1896Successor to Dubois at the Madeleine. He conducts a composition class at the Paris Conservatoire.
1900Premiere of the tragédie lyrique “Prométhée,” Op. 82.
1905–20Director of the Conservatoire.
1909President of the Société musicale indépendante.
1913Premiere in Monte Carlo of his opera “Pénélope.”
1919Song cycle, “Mirages,” Op. 113, with clear features of his modernist late style.
1924Death in Paris on November 4.

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About the Authors

Pascal Rogé (Fingering)

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Ernst Schliephake (Fingering and bowing for Violin)

Ernst Schliephake was born in 1962. At the age of seven he was already a state prize-winner in the category violin at the young people’s music competition “Jugend musiziert”; the following year he achieved the same result with the clarinet. He was taught by Klaus Speicher and Heinz Hepp (violin and clarinet) and studied the violin in 1979 with Prof. Lukas David in Detmold, working as his assistant between 1983 and 1985. Aside from playing the violin in Tibor Varga’s chamber orchestra, he also played many chamber concerts with him, predominantly as a clarinettist. A master-class with Ruggiero Ricci 1981, led to an intensive collaboration and friendship.

Since 1986 he has been a violinist with the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Bavarian State Opera, and since 1989 has been the associate concertmaster with the Munich Symphony Orchestra.

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