Clair de Lune (poem) Clair de Lune (poem) Clair de Lune is a French poem written by Paul Verlaine in 1869. It is the inspiration for the third and most famous movement of Debussy's 1890 Suite bergamasque of the same name; Debussy also made two settings of the poem for voice and piano accompaniment. The poem has also been set to music by Gabriel Fauré and Jozef Szulc. Votre âme est un paysage choisi Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques. Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur L'amour vainqueur et la vie
Orchestral Suite No. 3 (Tchaikovsky) the two he had previously written. The problem lay with the opening movement. Titled "Contrastes", it was to be a fantasia of contrasting musical sounds and patterns, not unlike the "Jeu de sons" movement that opened the Second Orchestral Suite. The more he worked with the music, the more recalcitrant the music became and the more he hated it. "Contrastes" finally found its way into the Concert Fantasia. Tchaikovsky's original layout for the Third Suite was similar to that of his Second—a fairly large opening movement as in his first two orchestral suites, then three smaller ones and a theme–and–variations