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Gabriel Faure was born on May 12th, 1845, in Pamiers France.
加布里埃尔·福莱1845年5月12日出生于法国帕米耶。
A student of Camille Saint-Saëns, Faure was a famous French composer of the late Romantic period.
福莱是法国浪漫主义后期著名作曲家，师从卡米尔·圣桑。
Faure was much more comfortable with smaller forms, such as chamber music, piano music and songs.
福莱更喜爱室内音乐、钢琴曲和歌曲等较短的音乐形式。
Second only to Debussy, Faure wrote nearly 100 songs throughout his career.
福莱在整个职业生涯中创作了近100首歌曲，仅次于德彪西。
He originally composed his famous Pavane for the piano before producing the more popular orchestral version.
他最初为钢琴谱写了著名的《帕凡舞曲》，后来才创作出更受欢迎的管弦乐版本。
His larger body of work included numerous preludes, nocturnes, impromptus and barcarollas
他形式更长的作品包括许多前奏曲、夜曲、即兴曲和船歌，
as well as the incidental music to major links Pelleas et melisande
以及《佩利亚斯与梅丽桑德》中的戏剧配乐，
and is also famous Requiem which because of limited available time to dedicate to composing, took over 20 years to complete.
还有著名的《安魂弥撒曲》，因为用于作曲的时间有限，花了20多年才完成。
Faure made a living in many different ways.
福莱的谋生方式多种多样。
Beginning in the late 1890s, he was principal organist at the Madeleine Church in Paris.
从19世纪90年代末开始，他在巴黎玛德莲教堂担任首席管风琴手。
He also became an influential teacher at the Paris Conservatoire where he had many prominent students, including Maurice Ravel.
他也是巴黎音乐学院一名有影响力的教师，拥有许多杰出的学生，包括莫里斯·拉威尔。
In 1905, he was appointed as director of the school, a position which he held for 15 years
1905年，他被任命为学院院长，任职15年，
before retiring in 1920 to focus exclusively on composing.
于1920年退休，之后专心从事作曲。
However, by this time, he was becoming very ill and almost entirely deaf.
然而，此时他病情严重，几乎完全失聪。
Gabriel Faure died of pneumonia on November 4th, 1924, in Paris France at the age of 79.
1924年11月4日，加布里埃尔·福莱因肺炎过世，享年79岁。
