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
Bergamasque Alps and Prealps the Alps") the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way: Bergamasque Alps and Prealps' borders are (clockwise): The Bergamasque Alps and Prealps are subdivided in two subsections: which are divided by some secondary valleys of Val Brembana, Val Seriana and Val Camonica: Valsassina, Valtorta, Val Secca, Valcanale, Val Nembo, Val di Scalve and Val Paisco. Some notable summits of the range are: Bergamasque Alps and Prealps The Bergamasque Alps and Prealps ("Alpi e Prealpi Bergamasche" in Italian) are a mountain range in the southern part of the Alps. They are located in Lombardy, in the northern