La Fée aux chansons

La Fée aux chansons (FR) The Song Fairy. Fauré's setting (1882, Op. 27, #2) for voice and piano of the 17th poem from the sixth section, »Vers pour être chantés« (Lines to Be Sung), of the volume La Chanson des heures (The Song of the Hours, 1872 / 1878) by Silvestre. There are numerous changes in the text as set by Fauré, as compared to the first published edition of the poem. Although Fauré often made changes to the texts he set, these are of such a nature as to make one suspect that he had a…