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    Gabriel Fauré composed Dans les ruines d'une abbaye in 1866 while studying piano, setting Victor Hugo's poem to music. The piece has a more conservative style than Fauré's later works, with steady rhythm and simple harmony. It depicts the personification of birds and nature's rapture in the ruins of an abbey, replacing the former reverent silence with new joy and love in springtime. Main characteristics include its key of A major, soprano vocal range from E4 to F5#, diatonic harmony, 6/8 time with an Allegretto tempo marking, and arpeggiated piano accompaniment.

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    Gabriel Fauré composed Dans les ruines d'une abbaye in 1866 while studying piano, setting Victor Hugo's poem to music. The piece has a more conservative style than Fauré's later works, with steady rhythm and simple harmony. It depicts the personification of birds and nature's rapture in the ruins of an abbey, replacing the former reverent silence with new joy and love in springtime. Main characteristics include its key of A major, soprano vocal range from E4 to F5#, diatonic harmony, 6/8 time with an Allegretto tempo marking, and arpeggiated piano accompaniment.

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    Gabriel Fauré composed Dans les ruines d'une abbaye in 1866 while studying piano, setting Victor Hugo's poem to music. The piece has a more conservative style than Fauré's later works, with steady rhythm and simple harmony. It depicts the personification of birds and nature's rapture in the ruins of an abbey, replacing the former reverent silence with new joy and love in springtime. Main characteristics include its key of A major, soprano vocal range from E4 to F5#, diatonic harmony, 6/8 time with an Allegretto tempo marking, and arpeggiated piano accompaniment.

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    Song title: Dans les ruines d'une abbaye - in the ruins of an abbey
    Composer (dates): Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
    #1 from opus. 2, two songs
    Year composed: 1866, published in 1869
    Poet (dates): Victor Marie Hugo (1802 - 1885)
    Voice type: soprano
    Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
    Gabriel Fauré is a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. Fauré’s talents
    became apparent at an early age, composed his first composition in 1863 while studying
    piano. Fauré then became a professor of composition at the Paris Conservatory in 1896,
    whilst working as a church organist on the side. He succeeded and remained the director
    of the conservatory from 1905 to 1920, when he resigned due to poor health and
    deafness.
    Fauré composed for solo voice, chorus, solo piano, chamber, orchestra, alongside
    theatre (plays and lyric dramas). Fauré’s composition demonstrates delicate refinement
    and gentle sensitivity. His influential vocal works include
    Dans les ruines d’une abbaye is composed in Fauré’s very early years while still a
    pupil. In this piece it is evident that his compositional style is still more conservative -
    rhythmically steady and harmonically simple; in comparison to some of his later works
    like La bonne chanson. Fauré was keen on Wagner and Liszt’s compositions, their
    influences are apparent in some of Fauré’s later works. Dans les ruines d’une abbaye,
    however, presents a texture (in both the vocal melody and accompaniment) that is more
    lyrical, with gradual dynamic and harmonic developments that are closer to what some
    Romantic composers (like Schumann) would use.
    The poem itself has more of a Romantic flavor, as well. The personification of
    birds, the rapture described in nature and spring. In this piece, “various shouts of joy”
    and “sparkling laughter” replace the reverent silence of prayer within the abbey; jasmine
    flowers bloom around the stone statue; a new dawn of spring and of love fills the empty
    air with euphoria. The poem was written by Napoleonic poet Hugo in post-revolutionary
    France. Hugo paints a glorious picture with his words while in exile, describing a new
    joyous feeling that replaces silence and darkness. One can say the fairy-tale love in
    splendid nature is specifically nostalgic of German Romanticism. However, Fauré’s
    harmonic writing describes newly-weds’ exuberant enchantment, basking in the joy and
    excitement of love.

    Main Characteristics of Song


    Original Key: A major
    Range: E4 to F5#
    Harmony: Diatonic
    Rhythm: 6/8, even phrasing with tempo marking Allegretto
    Form: A B A B A
    Accompaniment: even arpeggiation

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