Clair de lune (Fauré) Clair de lune (Fauré) "Clair de lune", ("Moonlight") Op. 46 No 2, is a song by Gabriel Fauré, composed in 1887 to words by Paul Verlaine. The pianist Graham Johnson writes that it closes Fauré's second period and opens the doors into his third. Johnson notes that it is "for many people the quintessential French mélodie". The lyric is from Verlaine's early collection "Fêtes galantes" (1869). It inspired not only Fauré but Claude Debussy, who set it in 1881 and wrote a well known piano piece inspired by it in 1891. Fauré's 1887 setting is for voice and piano; in
Cendres de lune time and out of the standards" ("Le Républicain"). "The songs of Mylène fill the air with an atmosphere alternately naughty and sad but very engaging" ("7 à Paris"). "Mylène's voice is exquisite and her accomplices made her sing little ordinary things" ("La Dépêche"). "[Farmer] seduces with sensitive texts, almost surreal, tenderly erotic" ("Le Télégramme"). In France, "Cendres de lune" charted for the very first time in April 1989, after the success of the second album, "Ainsi soit je...". It peaked at number 39 and has sold 367,700 copies to date. Note 9 songs, without "Tristana" and the two remixes Cendres