Chevaux de bois

Chevaux de bois (FR) Wooden Horses (carousels). Debussy's setting (1885, rev. 1903, Ariettes oubliées, #4) for voice and piano of the 17th poem in the third section of Sagesse (1881) by Verlaine. The poem is a revision, nearly identical to the poem from Romances sans paroles (1874) in the Paysages belges (Belgian landscapes) section, titled »Bruxelles – Chevaux de bois.« (Debussy's earlier setting uses the earlier poem. The 1903 revision uses the »Sagesse« version of the poem.) The poem was…