Faure, Jean-Baptiste (15 January 1830, Moulins; 9 November 1914, Paris), vocalist, helped support his mother by pumping the organ at Notre-Dame in Paris for 200 francs a year and a few free piano lessons. He was admitted to the Conservatoire in 1843, and his teacher Tariot was able to place him in the chorus of the Théâtre-Italien because he was a member of the staff there. Indefatigable, the boy sang in the choir of Saint-Nicolas-des-Champs and at the Madelaine. At the latter church, he was…