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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.
"Clair de lune" (Debussy), a piano piece by Debussy, third movement of his Suite bergamasque, L. 75 (1905), inspired by the Verlaine poem "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 ...
Clair de lune features prominently in the novel All the Light We Cannot See as well as the miniseries adaptation. In the 2022 comedy-drama Everything Everywhere All at Once, it is featured prominently as the theme for Deirdre. Clair de lune appears near the denouement in Ocean's Eleven (2001), as the team looks out over the Fountains of Bellagio.
In 2008, a phonautograph paper recording made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville of "Au clair de la lune" on 9 April 1860, was digitally converted to sound by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This one-line excerpt of the song is the earliest recognizable record of the human voice and the earliest recognizable record ...
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]
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.
Before dying the patient had remembered a girl who always played a Debussy piece. "Clair de lune" appears in the English horror film Dog Soldiers. After a failed attempt to escape the farm house in a Land Rover and Bruce is killed by the werewolves Megan sits by the piano and starts playing off the sheet music which is Debussy's "Clair de lune".
By the 1920s a range of Fauré's more popular songs were on record, including "Après un rêve" sung by Olga Haley, [147] and "Automne" and "Clair de lune" sung by Ninon Vallin. [148] In the 1930s better-known performers recorded Fauré pieces, including Georges Thill ("En prière"), [ 149 ] and Jacques Thibaud and Alfred Cortot (Violin Sonata ...