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 (music) or entirely original movements ("Holberg Suite", "The Planets"). Estienne du Tertre published "suyttes de bransles" in 1557, giving the first general use of the term "suite" 'suyttes' in music, although the usual form of the time was as pairs of dances. The first recognizable suite is Peuerl's "Newe Padouan, Intrada, Dantz, and Galliarda" of 1611, in which the four dances of the title appear repeatedly in ten suites. The "Banchetto musicale" by Johann Schein (1617) contains 20 sequences of five different dances. The first four-movement suite credited to a named composer, "Sandley's Suite", was published in 1663. The "classical" suite