Introduction to the concert on October 23, 2024 at the Écaussinnes-Lalaing church, as part of the commemoration of the centenary of the death of Gabriel Fauré.

Between 1880 and 1914, many French artists used the effervescence of Brussels to establish themselves in a city less hostile to their innovations than Paris. Gabriel Fauré was one of them in the late 80s. This was to be the start of an artistic friendship between the composer and Belgium that would last almost four decades. Anna Boch liked him, and when Fauré was announced in Brussels in 1906, having completed his 1st Quintet, which he had promised to Eugène Ysaÿe, she took advantage of his presence in the capital to organize a pocket audition of his Requiem at her home. On the occasion of the centenary of Gabriel Fauré's death on November 4, 1924, the lecturer will bring to life this period of artistic ferment through the eyes of Gabriel Fauré.

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