Beauford lost his mother in February 1958 and mourned her death well into the month of May. According to his biography, Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney
, he heard Gabriel Fauré's Requiem performed at Notre Dame Cathedral and began to consider it a requiem for her.
Notre Dame Cathedral
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, he heard Gabriel Fauré's Requiem performed at Notre Dame Cathedral and began to consider it a requiem for her.
© Discover Paris!
Click here* to listen to the Paris Orchestra and the Choir of the Paris Orchestra perform this magnificent work.
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