Paul Verlaine

Life

Born: 30 March 1844, Metz

Died: 8 January 1896, Paris

Biography

Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.

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Settings of text by Paul Verlaine

• C'est l’extase langoureuse (Claude Debussy)
• Chanson d'automne (Huub de Lange)
• Chanson d'Automne (Michael J. Oczko)
• Clair de lune (Claude Debussy)
• Clair de Lune, Op. 46, No. 2 (Gabriel Fauré)
• Deux spectres joyeux (Carlotta Ferrari)
• En Sourdine (Claude Debussy)
• Fantoches (Claude Debussy)
• Green (Claude Debussy)
• L'Heure Exquise (Reynaldo Hahn)
• Il pleure dans mon cœur (Claude Debussy)
• Mandoline (Claude Debussy)
• Mandoline, Op. 58 No. 1 (Gabriel Fauré)
• L'ombre des arbres (Claude Debussy)

Publications

• Poèmes saturniens (1866)
• La bonne chanson (1870)
• Romances sans paroles (1874)
• Sagesse (1880)

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