Nell

Nell Fauré's setting (1878. Op. 18, #1) for voice and piano of the third poem from Poèmes antiques – Chansons écossaises (Antique poems – Scottish songs, 1852) by Leconte de Lisle. The poem is imitative of Robert Burns, specifically a certain »Chanson C [100],« as Burns' poetry was translated into French and published in France in 1843. »Chanson C« contains images of roses and the month of June, as does de Lisle's poem. The »Chanson CI,« immediately after it, is in praise of one »Nell,« one of…