Ex. 6-7: Après un rêve
Gabriel Fauré
Key: E♭/CmTime: 3/43 Songs (Op. 7)
One of Fauré's most popular songs, composed around 1870 and published in 1878 as part of Trois Mélodies (Op. 7). The text is an anonymous Italian poem freely adapted into French by Romain Bussine.
The song is sung by a background performer during the Paris sequence at the Folies Bergère in Episode 6 of Prime Video's Young Sherlock.
Music video by Sabine Devieilhe and Alexandre Tharaud (2020)