La Chanson d'Ève
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La Chanson d'Ève, Op. 95, is a song cycle by Gabriel Fauré, of ten mélodies for voice and piano. Composed during 1906–10, it is based on the collection of poetry of the same name by Charles van Lerber
Gabriel Fauré in 1905
Pelléas et Mélisande (Fauré)
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Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 is a suite derived from incidental music by Gabriel Fauré for Maurice Maeterlinck's play of the same name. He was the first of four leading composers to write music inspir
La Chanson d'Ève
…origin was as a re-setting of the music of "Mélisande's Song". The latter, an 1898 setting for voice of "La Chanson de Mélisande" from Act 3 of Fauré's Pelléas et Mélisande, was his only setting of a text in English. Fauré only conceived the idea of a song cycle after "Crépuscule" had been published as an independent song…
Fauré at about the time of his Pelléas et Mélisande music
Mrs Patrick Campbell