En Sourdine (1)

En Sourdine (1) (FR) Muted. Debussy's setting (1892, Fêtes galantes, first series, #1) for voice and piano of the twenty-first poem from Fêtes galantes (1869) by Verlaine. The poem was first published in L'Artiste on 1 July 1868, in a group of poems titled »Nouvelles Fêtes galantes.« Debussy also set the poem 10 years earlier (Vienna, September 1882). That version, published in 1944, differs substantially from the later one. The song is dedicated to Mme. Robert Godet. This poem was also set by…