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Clair de lune" (French for "Moonlight") is a poem written by French poet Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Claude Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque. Debussy also made two settings of the poem for voice and piano accompaniment.
Debussy, a lifelong admirer of Verlaine's poetry, had taken a copy of the collection with him when he went to study in Rome in 1885. [1] Although other composers, from Gabriel Fauré to Benjamin Britten set Verlaine's poetry, Debussy, according to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, was the first composer of any importance to do so. [2]
"Clair de lune" (Fauré), setting of the Paul Verlaine poem by Fauré, from his Two Songs, Op. 46 (1887) Clairs de lune, a set of four piano pieces, each titled "Claire de Lune", by Abel Decaux (1907) Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven), Op. 27, No. 2 (1801), the "Moonlight" piano sonata by Beethoven, known in French as Sonate au Clair de lune
Fauré proposed a story based on the poem "Clair de lune" from the collection Fêtes galantes by Paul Verlaine (1869). Fauré had set the poem to music in 1887. [5] The title of the new work was taken from the opening lines of the poem. [n 1] The librettist of Pénélope, René Fauchois, provided a scenario accordingly.
Verlaine's birthplace in Metz, today a museum dedicated to the poet's life and artwork. Paul-Marie Verlaine (/ v ɛər ˈ l ɛ n / vair-LEN; [1] French: [pɔl maʁi vɛʁlɛn]; 30 March 1844 – 8 January 1896) was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement and the Decadent movement.
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La Bonne Chanson is a collection of poems written by Paul Verlaine from the winter of 1869 to the spring of 1870. Twenty-one poems belong to this group, and are addressed to sixteen-year-old Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville, whom he married in the same year (1870).