![]() ![]() Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheurĮt leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune, Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques. Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques ![]() It inspired not only Fauré but Claude Debussy, who set it in 1881 and wrote a well known piano piece inspired by it in 1891. The lyric is from Paul Verlaine's early collection Fêtes galantes (1869). Johnson notes that it is "for many people the quintessential French mélodie". The pianist Graham Johnson notes that it closes Fauré's second period and opens the doors into his third. ![]() The song is dedicated to Fauré's friend the painter Emmanuel Jadin, who was a talented amateur pianist. The original published version (Hamelle, Paris, 1888) is in B-flat minor. In its orchestral form the song was included in Fauré's incidental music Masques et bergamasques in 1919. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887 to words by Paul Verlaine.įauré's 1887 setting of the poem was for voice and piano but in 1888, at the instigation of the Princesse de Polignac, he made a version for voice and orchestra, first performed at the Société Nationale de Musique in April of that year, with the tenor Maurice Bàges as soloist. Song by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887 to words by Paul Verlaine ![]()
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