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 for Piano (Schoenberg) Suite for Piano (Schoenberg) Arnold Schoenberg's Suite for Piano (German: ), Op. 25, is a twelve tone piece for piano composed between 1921 and 1923. The work is the earliest in which Schoenberg employs a row of "12 tones related only to one another" in every movement: the earlier "5 Stücke", Op. 23 (1920–23) employs a 12-tone row only in the final Waltz movement, and the "Serenade", Op. 24 uses a single row in its central "Sonnet". The Basic Set of the "Suite for Piano" consists of the following succession: E–F–G–D–G–E–A–D–B–C–A–B. In form and style the work echoes many features