Suite bergamasque
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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 mo
Claude Debussy c. 1900 by Atelier Nadar
Paul Verlaine
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Paul Marie Verlaine was a French poet, writer and critic associated with the Symbolist, Parnassianist and Decadent movements. He is considered one of the paramount exponents of the fin de siècle in Fr
Suite bergamasque
…had first been composed under the title Pavane, while Clair de lune was originally entitled Promenade sentimentale. These names come from poems by Paul Verlaine. The title of the third movement of Suite bergamasque is taken from Verlaine's poem "Clair de lune", which refers to bergamasks in the opening stanza…
Verlaine's birthplace in Metz, today a museum dedicated to his life and œuvre
Plaque in Brussels marking the building where Verlaine shot Rimbaud
By the table, an 1872 painting by Henri Fantin-Latour. Verlaine is on the far left and Rimbaud is at the second to the left.
Verlaine in 1893; photograph by Otto Wegener