Ariettes oubliées

Ariettes oubliées (FR) Forgotten Ariettas. Debussy's settings (1885 / 7) for voice and piano of six poems from Romances sans paroles (1874) by Verlaine. »Ariettes oubliées« is also the title of a group of poems within Verlaine's book, but not all the songs are settings of those poems. The songs were first published separately by Girod in 1888, then republished in 1903 by Fromont as a group with the collective title Ariettes oubliées, which Debussy felt was ironic, after the premiere of his…