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
Suite No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) of the emotional tone of the music," the music itself is not programmatic. This work was first performed on November 30, 1893, by Rachmaninoff and Pavel Pabst in Moscow, and is dedicated to Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff composed a second suite in 1901. The four movements are: Perhaps surprisingly, given that Rachmaninoff wrote orchestral and two-piano versions of his "Symphonic Dances", which is effectively a three-movement symphony, no one has orchestrated this "Suite" as a possible symphony. Suite No. 1 (Rachmaninoff) Suite No. 1 (or "Fantaisie-Tableaux" for two pianos), Op. 5, is a composition for two pianos by Sergei Rachmaninoff. Composed in