Verlaine's first published collection, Poèmes saturniens (1866), though adversely commented upon by Sainte-Beuve, established him as a poet of promise and originality. Verlaine was a frequenter of the salon of the Marquise de Ricard (Louis-Xavier de Ricard's mother) at 10 Boulevard des Batignolles and other social venues, where he rubbed shoulders with prominent artistic figures of the day: Anatole France, Emmanuel Chabrier, inventor-poet and humorist Charles Cros, the cynical anti-bourgeois idealist Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Théodore de Banville, François Coppée, Jose-Maria de Heredia, Leconte de Lisle, Catulle Mendes and others. Verlaine's first published poem was published in 1863 in La Revue du progrès, a publication founded by poet Louis-Xavier de Ricard. He began writing poetry at an early age, and was initially influenced by the Parnassien movement and its leader, Leconte de Lisle. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.īorn in Metz, Verlaine was educated at the Lycée Impérial Bonaparte (now the Lycée Condorcet) in Paris and then took up a post in the civil service. Writing your name in a fogged-up bus window.Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. After the arpeggiated section, we’re back to the sequence that started the song, except this time, Debussy sneaks in the 7 th, which somehow makes it seem less heartbreaking, and more heartwarming. Trust me, it becomes even more beautiful and awe-inspiring once you’ve tried to play it yourself.ģ. The arpeggiated section, mentioned above. But of course, when they do it, it makes you want to scratch your eyes out when Debussy does it, it makes you want to cry your eyes out.Ģ. Putting the 2 nd of the scale into a minor chord results in a cluster of notes preferred by composers who write theme songs for soap operas.
The opening of the song is gorgeous, but the most wonderful chords come here, when the pianist’s left hand is way down low, and the right hand is way up high, playing a chord whose name I don’t know, but which includes the 2 nd of the scale. I realized that no matter how much I messed up my hair, or how crookedly I wore my glasses, it was going to take a lot more time to learn this than I had available.ġ. That’s the arpeggiated section that begins about two minutes into the piece. The plan went brilliantly for exactly three days for a song so famous, it’s not a technically difficult piece.
#CALAIR DE LUNE HOW TO#
Anyway, my goal was to learn how to play this piece, at the rate of one page per day. No other composer, in my opinion, so regularly approaches the line between beautiful and schmaltzy without actually crossing it. In fact, most of his music deserves to be on this list.
There are few songs for piano as perfect as “Clair De Lune” by Claude Debussy. Doing my best to look like a music student, (it’s easy: just mess up your hair and wear your glasses crooked) I would sneak in and play until my fingers got tired, or until I could hear someone practicing in the next room who was embarrassingly better than me. But during my first year at University, I realized how much I missed it, and so after classes I would make regular trips to the music building, where the practice rooms for music students were found. I took piano lessons for almost a decade as a child, but by mid-high school I gave up on it because, well, it was too hard.
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