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Composer of the Week Gabriel Faure Episodes

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  1. Beginnings

    5/5 Deafness forces Faure to quit the Paris Conservatoire, but the nation celebrates his music

  2. Episode 4

    4/5 Examining how the composer coped with World War I and his own worsening deafness.

  3. Episode 3

    3/5 The composer turns 40, discovers Verlaine, overcomes depression and starts an affair.

  4. Episode 2

    2/5 Faure meets Liszt, inspires Proust and chooses a wife by a rather unconventional method.

  5. Episode 1

    1/5 Exploring Faure's First Violin Sonata, which earned him esteem and a publishing contract.