Clair de lune (Fauré)
"Clair de lune", ("Moonlight") Op. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887 to words by Paul Verlaine.
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Moonlight on still water, the colour of a quiet night with a piano.
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Clair de Lune is a white, close to green.
It can be described as pale, delicate, faded and luminous.
Set in black, because black reads best on it.
Clair de Lune
Clair de lune (poem)
"Clair de lune" 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, Josef Szulc, and Alphons Diepenbrock.
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Suite bergamasque is a piano suite by Claude Debussy. He began composing it around 1890, at the age of 28, but significantly revised it just before its 1905 publication. The popularity of the third movement, Clair de lune, has made it one of the composer's most famous works for piano, as well as one of the most famous musical pieces of all time.
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Noun
- A pale bluish-gray colour.
Adjective
- Of a pale bluish-gray colour.
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