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Poèmes meaning
plural of poëme
Example sentences (3)
Maurice Ravel set Mallarmé's poetry to music in Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913).
The same technique is highlighted in Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé (1913); Debussy set two of the three poems at the same time as Ravel, and the former's word-setting is noticeably more formal than the latter's, in which syllables are often elided.
Wagner's extroverted emotionalism was not to be Debussy's way, but the German composer's influence is evident in La damoiselle élue and the 1889 piece Cinq poèmes de Charles Baudelaire.