Tag: La lune blanche

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  The good song

  June 17, 2019

  Classical music, Mélodie, Piano music, Song, Vocal

  Fauré, La bonne chanson, La lune blanche, Verlaine

  There are certain poems that attract composers like bees to flowers; one such is Paul Verlaine’s La lune blanche. A quick song tally arrived at a total of at least 137(!) different settings of the poem, and that’s just in the original French – there were  lots more that had been set in translation. Here…