La Bonne Chanson

La Bonne Chanson (FR) The Good Song. Fauré's settings (1892/94, Op. 61) for voice and piano of nine of 21 poems from Verlaine's book of the same name. The poems have their genesis in Verlaine's hopelessly idealized love for Mathilde Mauté de Fleurville (1853 – 1914). He eventually overcame her parents' opposition to their involvement, and they were married. Many of the poems that became La Bonne Chanson were sent to Mathilde in letters during the second half of 1869 and the first half of 1870 —…