- Clair de Lune + le poème de Paul Verlaine

- Music cannot be learned. A film by Georges Gachot.

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“Clair de Lune”, Claude Debussy

Steinway Artist Pascal Rogé, a master of French piano repertoire, performs Debussy‘s immortal “Clair de Lune” at New York City’s Steinway Hall. The celebrated movement from Debussy‘s “Suite Bergamasque” was originally titled “Promenade sentimental”; Debussy‘s suite was inspired by the poetry of Paul Verlaine.

https://youtu.be/c977QdbTImU

Paul VERLAINE
1844 - 1896

Clair de lune

Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.

Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune,
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,

Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres.

https://www.bonjourpoesie.fr/lesgrandsclassiques/poemes/paul_verlaine/clair_de_lune

 Music cannot be learned

The composer Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, a few miles outside Paris, in 1862. While a pupil at the Conservatoire, he composed music that did not conform to the theory of the times. He contradicted his teachers by claiming that pleasure was the only valid rule of music, and that music could not be learned. Debussy was to become one of the greatest French composers, creating works which threw open entirely new musical horizons. This fascinating documentary gives deep insights into the life and work of Claude Debussy based on reports by those who encountered the great composer. Including Debussy's Childrens Corner played by Zoltán Kocsis. A film by Georges Gachot.

https://youtu.be/ydnwhrUOAIg