Clair de lune
Moonlight
Author
Language
Year
1869
Country
France
Genre
Long Poem (Epic, Verse Novel, or Book-Length Poem)
modern europe
impressionism
symbolism
"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.Wikipedia →
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