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
Suite Gothique Suite Gothique Suite gothique, Op. 25 is a suite for organ composed by Léon Boëllmann in 1895. The suite consists of four movements: The first movement (Introduction - Choral) is in C minor and is made up of harmonized choral phrases that are first played in block chords on the great and pedals, and then repeated, piano, on the Swell. The second movement ("Menuet gothique") is in 3/4 time and in C major. The third movement ("Prière à Notre-Dame") is in A-flat major. It rarely uses dynamics above 'piano'. The final fourth movement (Toccata) is the best-known of the suite.