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
Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) 31. Clair de terre (finale): 'Terre! Terre!' (Chorus.) Extracts are available on : Le voyage dans la lune (operetta) Le voyage dans la Lune ("A Trip to the Moon") is an "opéra-féerie" in four acts and 23 scenes by Jacques Offenbach. Loosely based on the novel "From the Earth to the Moon" by Jules Verne, its French libretto was by Albert Vanloo, Eugène Leterrier and Arnold Mortier. It premiered on 26 October 1875 at the Théâtre de la Gaîté. The production was revived at the Théâtre du Châtelet, on 31 March 1877. The idea for the work was presented to