Gabriel Fauré : Trio

Created : 2001-01-15
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1. Fauré's trio

Fauré's chamber musics in his late period is less popular than ones in his early period. Now I will tell you about Fauré's "Trio".

2. Repertolies in trio

In classical music, most typical "Trio" is comosed in piano, violon and violoncello. Haydn and Mozart composed a lot of trio in this type. But their compositions are boring for me, because melody lines of violon are almost the same as ones of piano's baseline. This shows that classical composers did not think highly of cellos.

Beethoven was the revolutionist of "Trio". He changed the concept of "Trio". Cello's melody lines in his trio are sometimes eloquent and sometimes sweat.

After Beethoven's Trio, A lot of famous trios were composed. I will show composers who made Trio; Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Ravel, Dvorak, Tchaikofsky and Shostakovich. They composed his trios as a big, overwhelming works.

3. Specialities in Fauré's Trio

Fauré's trio has a lot of specialities, compared to other trios. These specialities are as follows:

  1. Short and Compact
  2. No double stops
  3. Simple style
  4. Treat same between a violon and a cello
  5. Rarely used picicato

As these features tells that Fauré's Trio is the antithese to other's trios.

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