http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFH_6DNRCY&feature=related
One of the most famous piano pieces of all time. Although it is a bit overdone, it really is a thing of beauty.
Factoids:
Taken from his Suite bergamasque.
A bergemasque is a type of dance.
The piece is based on the Paul Verlaine poem bearing the same title.
Here is the text:
Your soul is a select landscape
Where charming masqueraders and bergamaskers go
Playing the lute and dancing and almost
Sad beneath their fantastic disguises.
All sing in a minor key
Of victorious love and the opportune life,
They do not seem to believe in their happiness
And their song mingles with the moonlight,
With the still moonlight, sad and beautiful,
That sets the birds dreaming in the trees
And the fountains sobbing in ecstasy,
The tall slender fountains among marble statues.
Have a good one!
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