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Celebrating Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) — Two Concerts at Maryville University, September 30 & October 20, 2024

Gabriel Fauré — Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1889.

Free admission to both events!

The concerts will not be live-streamed, and no recordings will be available, so please consider enjoying these performances in person. Feel free to share this information with anyone you know who may be interested.


Faculty Recital — Peter Henderson, piano

Monday, September 30, 2024 • 7:30 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium • Directions

Musical Program

Gabriel Fauré: Works for Solo Piano
  • Romance sans paroles in A-flat major, op. 17 no. 3 (ca. 1863) (ca. 3 minutes)
  • Nocturne No. 2 in B major, op. 33 no. 2 (ca. 1881) (ca. 6 minutes)
  • Valse-caprice No. 1 in A major, op. 30 (1882) (ca. 7 minutes)
  • Impromptu No. 2 in F minor, op. 31 (1883) (ca. 4 minutes)
  • Impromptu No. 3 in A-flat major, op. 34 (1883) (ca. 5 minutes)
  • Nocturne No. 6 in D-flat major, op. 63 (1894) (ca. 9 minutes)
  • Deux pièces, op. 104 (1913)
    1. Nocturne No. 11 in F-sharp minor (ca. 5 minutes)
    2. Barcarolle No. 10 in A minor (ca. 4 minutes)
  • Nocturne No. 13 in B minor, op. 119 (1921) (ca. 7 minutes)

Brief Program Note

To observe the centenary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, Peter Henderson will perform a Maryville University Faculty Recital exploring works spanning the great French composer’s career. Renowned for his harmonic explorations and freedom, Fauré was also an inspired melodist, spinning long, flowing phrases set in a florid texture. His elegant, gorgeous piano music is poised between vigor and languor, raw emotion and restraint. This program features some of his most famous and extroverted early piano works, including the witty Valse-caprice No. 1 and two scintillating Impromptus, and ends with a few of Fauré’s sorrowful yet consolatory late pieces, including his intensely moving Nocturne No. 13.


Music at Maryville Series 2024-2025, Concert 2 of 4 — Musicians of the SLSO perform Gabriel Fauré’s Two Piano Quintets & Leo Marcus’s Three Schumann Stars

Sunday, October 20, 2024 • 3:00 p.m. • Maryville University Auditorium • Directions

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Musical Program

  • Gabriel Fauré: Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, op. 89 (1887-95) (ca. 30 minutes)
  • Robert Schumann (1810-1856): Untitled piece No. 30 from Album for the Young, op. 68 (ca. 4 minutes)
  • Leo Marcus (b. 1945): Three Schumann Stars (Piano Quintet No. 3) (Missouri Premiere) (ca. 14 minutes)
  • Intermission (ca. 10 minutes)
  • Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): Piano Quintet No. 2 in C minor, op. 115 (1919-21) (ca. 32 minutes)

Brief Program Note

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Music at Maryville Concert Series 2024-2025

  • Free admission to all concerts (including the two faculty solo piano recitals by Peter Henderson listed at the end of this webpage)!
  • All events will take place in the Maryville University Auditorium.
  • Concerts will not be live-streamed, so please join us in person!

Concert 1 of 4 — Early Music Missouri presents Adoption, Adaption & Appropriation: Invasive Species in Mediterranean Musical Culture

Concert 2 of 4 — Musicians of the SLSO perform Gabriel Fauré’s two Piano Quintets

Concert 3 of 4 — Yin Xiong, Cello

with Nicolas del Grazia, Clarinet; and Peter Henderson, Piano

  • Sunday, February 9, 2025 • 2:00 p.m.
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  • Program to include: Carl Frühling & Johannes Brahms’s Trios for Clarinet, Cello, and Piano

Concert 4 of 4 — Scott Lyle, Guitarist & Composer

  • Sunday, April 13, 2025 • 3:00 p.m.
  • Program TBA

Maryville University Faculty Recitals — Peter Henderson, Piano

Celebrating Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924): A Solo Piano Recital

  • Monday, September 30, 2024 • 7:30 p.m.
  • Program will feature representative works from Fauré’s entire career

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937): Complete Solo Piano Music, Recital 1 of 2

  • Saturday, April 5, 2025 • 7:30 p.m.
  • Recital 2 will take place during Fall 2025
  • Program TBA