Ex. 12-8: Green
Gabriel Fauré
Key: G♭/E♭mTime: 3/45 Mélodies (Op. 58)
No. 5 from Fauré's Cinq mélodies "de Venise" (Op. 58), composed in 1891. The poem is by Paul Verlaine, from Romances sans paroles.
The same poem was set by Debussy as No. 5 of his Ariettes oubliées. (Ex. 14-9: Green by Claude Debussy)
Both Fauré and Debussy set several of Verlaine's poems to music, though the two composers were critical of each other's work.