FAURE, GABRIEL ( 1845-1924 ), French musical com poser, was born at Pamiers (Ariege) on May 13, 1845. He studied at the school of sacred music directed by Niedermeyer, first under Dietsch, and subsequently under Saint-Saens. He became "maitre de chapelle" at the church of the Madeleine in 1877, and organist in 1896. Faure was made professor of composition at the Con servatoire (1896), and director (19o5). He retired in 1920 and died on Nov. 4, 1924. His work at the Conservatoire, extending over nearly a quarter of a century, had great importance in the history of French music. Roger-Ducasse, Ravel and Florent Schmitt were among his pupils. He himself wrote music in all forms, but his fame rests mainly on his exquisite songs and on a considerable body of original and interesting chamber music. Re cognition came to him slowly, probably because of the quality of unexpectedness in his compositions. Among the more familiar of his chamber music works are two sonatas for violin and piano forte, two sonatas for violoncello, a posthumous string quartet and two quintets for pianoforte and strings. For a bibliography of his works see Octave Sere, Musiciens f rancais, d'aujourd'hui (5th ed. 1910).