Clair de lune (poem)
"Clair de lune" (English "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. The poem has also been set to music by Gabriel Fauré, Louis Vierne, Sigfrid Karg-Elert, and Josef Szulc.
Text[]
Votre âme est un paysage choisi |
Your soul is a chosen landscape |
References[]
- ^ "Clair de lune". One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine (a bilingual edition). Translated by Norman R. Shapiro. University of Chicago Press. 1998. ISBN 0-226-85344-6, 0-226-85345-4. Retrieved 2017-07-08. (Only the French text is quoted here.)
External links[]
- French Wikisource has original text related to this article: Fêtes galantes (1902)/"Clair de lune"
- Poetry by Paul Verlaine
- 1869 poems