Colloque sentimental

Colloque sentimental (FR) Sentimental Conversation. Debussy's setting (1904, Fêtes galantes, second series, #3) for voice and piano of the 22nd (final) poem from Fêtes galantes (1869) by Verlaine. The poem first appeared in L'Artiste on 1 July 1868, in a group of poems titled »Nouvelles Fêtes galantes« minus its last two lines. Many influences can be felt directly in Verlaine's poem: Leconte de Lisle's poem »Les Spectres« (The Ghosts), which appeard in the Parnasse contemporain, and…