Sainte

Sainte (FR) Saint. Ravel's setting (1896, pub. 1907) for voice and piano of a poem by Mallarmé, written in very late November or early December 1865, published in the revue Lutèce in 1883, and in Les Poètes maudits (The Cursed Poets, 1884), edited by Verlaine, then in La Décadence (The Decadents, 1886) and finally in his collected Poésies (1887). Mallarmé writes to Henri Cazalis (1840 – 1909, who wrote poetry under the pen name Jean Lahor that was set to music by Duparc [1848 – 1933]) on 5…