"Ah, it's lovely, the Ballade, it really is delightful. I am unfair to Fauré's music in so far as I don't know it very well. When we get back, you'll have to play me lots of it."
— Gabriel Fauré

January 1, 1970

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Maurice Ravel, speaking with pianist Marguerite Long in 1932, after a rehearsal which included Fauré's Ballade for Piano and Orchestra; as quoted in At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963) by Long, p. 38