"How can it be that I did not know a work like that? I am bowled over by what I have heard."
— Gabriel Fauré

January 1, 1970

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Richard Strauss, speaking with Marguerite Long after hearing Fauré's Suite from Shylock, performed at the Gabriel Fauré Competition held in Luxembourg from the 25th-27th April 1939; as quoted in At the Piano with Gabriel Fauré (1963) by Marguerite Long, p. 60