Après un rêve

Après un rêve (FR) After a Dream. Fauré's setting (CA 1878) for voice and piano of a free adaptation by Bussine of an anonymous Italian poem »Levati sol que la luna è levata« found in an anthology titled »Canti popolari« published in Venice in 1841. The Italian words, printed under the French, may also be sung. Fauré was probably influenced by Pauline Viardot's compositions Poésies toscanes (Tuscan Poems, 1880). Novelist Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922), though a great appreciator of Fauré, found…