Gabriel Fauré – Élégie for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 24 With Marked and Unmarked String Parts Series: Henle Music FoliosPublisher: Henle Urtext EditionFormat: Softcover Score and Solo PartComposer: Gabriel FauréEditor: Jean-Christophe Monnier
Composed in 1880, Élégie was intended to be the slow movement for a sonata. Fauré gave up the sonata project and published the piece individually. It was so successful that Fauré was urged by the publisher to write further pieces.