Ex. 9-10: Le Parfum impérissable
Gabriel Fauré
Key: E/C#mTime: 3/42 Songs (Op.76)
No. 1 of Fauré's Deux Mélodies (Op. 76), composed in 1897 to a poem by Leconte de Lisle. Dedicated to Francesco Paolo Tosti, the Italian composer also known for "Ideale."
This song marks a turning point in Fauré's style, as he began moving toward the more restrained, harmonically complex language of his later period.