Gabriel Fauré / André Messager - Souvenirs de Bayreuth: Quadrille on themes from Wagner’s Ring

Souvenirs de Bayreuth (Fantaisie en forme de quadrille sur les thèmes favoris de L’anneau de Nibelung - R. Wagner) (1888) An oddly humorous series of quadrilles for piano four-hands on themes from Richard Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen.“ During the 1880’s, French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) was quite the Wagnerite, traveling all over Europe and especially to Bayreuth in order to hear performances of Wagner’s four-part operatic epic. Fauré and his friend André Messager (1853-1929), a fellow compos