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Fêtes galantes (Ilème série)

Fêtes galantes (Ilème série) (FR) Gallant festivals. Debussy's second settings (1904) for voice and piano of three poems from Verlaine's Fêtes galantes (1869). The individual song titles are: »Les Ingénus,« »Le Faune,« and »Colloque sentimental.« The dedication is »pour remercier le moi (sic) de juin 1904 A.l.p.M.« (In thanks for the month of June, 1904; A la petite Mienne) Debussy's »petite Mienne« was Emma Bardac, who became the second Mme. Claude Debussy. In June 1904 they fled Paris and the…

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