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The good song

June 17, 2019 · by Chris Weeks | in Classical music, Mélodie, Piano music, Song, Vocal | tagged 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 […]

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