Fêtes galantes (Ière série)

Fêtes galantes (Ière série) (FR) Gallant festivals. Debussy's first settings (1892) for voice and piano of poems from Verlaine's Fêtes galantes (1869). Of Fêtes galantes, Verlaine writes that they are »sentiments costumed in the style of the Italian comedy and enchantments à la Watteau [1684 – 1721].« The individual song titles are: »En sourdine,« »Fantoches,« and »Clair de lune.«