The Saddest Piece Ever Written For Cello… | Fauré: Élégie

Some say Gabriel Fauré wrote this for his wife who died. Others say it was for a friend who died. Neither is true. When he wrote it in 1880, he hadn’t even met his wife yet, and the friend it was dedicated to, the cellist Jules Loëb, lived another 50 years.

The Élégie began as the slow movement of a cello sonata Fauré never finished. He published it on its own in 1883. No tragedy behind it, just pure grief in music, and maybe that’s why everyone can hear their own story in it.

Who do you think of when you hear this? Tell me in the comments.

🎻 Cello: Ilia Laporev
🎹 Piano: Estevao Gomes
🎧Sound Engineer: Marco Aurelio (SPECIAL THANKS)

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