Zéphyr

Zéphyr Debussy's setting (1881) for voice and piano of the second poem by Banville from Les Cariatides: Livre troisième – En habit zinzolin, no. II (Cariatids, Book Three – Dressed in Maroon, [1839 / 42]). The poem's title is »Triolet, a Philis.« »Zéphyr« was added by the publisher. The song was first published in 1932. Of »Les Cariatides« Banville writes: » Of all the books I've written, this is the only one for which I need not ask for indulgence, because I had the good fortune to finish it…