Elegy

After the success of his first violin sonata (HN 980), it went without saying that Fauré should continue with the composition of works for chamber music. In 1880 he composed a small piece for cello and piano which was supposed to become the slow movement of a sonata. Fauré abandoned his sonata project and instead published the piece under the title of "Elegy". He was so successful that the editor of Fauré encouraged him to write new pieces and that the conductor Édouard Colonne ordered him from the orchestral version of the "Elegy", created two years later. As is customary, our Urtext edition includes a cello part with or without indications.