Élégie (Fauré)

The Élégie pour violoncelle et piano, Op. 24 ( Elegy for cello and piano, opus 24) was a composer Gabriel Fauré, written in 1878 .

Background
The piece was originally for cello and piano written. Also there is a subsequent operation in 1890 for cello and orchestra, entitled Élégie pour violoncelle et orchester.The orchestral accompaniment is in 1890 by the composer at the request of conductor Edouard Colonne written it. With orchestra asks the piece for two flutes, two oboes's, two clarinets , four horns and strings accompanying the cellist. The Élégie has been commissioned by Fauré to Jules Loeb, who lost his life in 1883 . Previously it was thought that the Élégie part of an unfinished cello sonata .

Form
The shape can be seen as an ABA song form .

The opening melody in the cello follows a tailor with gloomy complaining eighth in C minor chords of the accompaniment. The main melody is forte presented,                            and is repeated in pianissimo . Then the piece gradually develops in the direction of a sweeter flat major -theme, in which the piano (or band), a new melody play, with the designation cantabile espressivo, in a light syncopated movement. The guidance is also there kabbelender in thirty-second notes. The cello takes this theme further and operate to a climax. The climax consists of an intense and fast part. Cello and guidance alternate here with ferocious passionate passages, which consist of arpeggio 's and chords. Then returns the first theme again, but now accompanied by rapid triooltjes and sixteenths. The work closes with pianissimo - under long last and lowest tone of the cellist - three sad arpeggiated minor chords in the accompaniment.