Having completed the Five Venetian Songs, Gabriel Fauré wrote a friend feeling that he had just about exhausted for himself the musical potential of the poetry of Paul Verlaine. Luckily for the history of the song cycle, Fauré was to return once more to the French poet, composing the nine-song cycle La bonne chanson. Later in his life Fauré was to claim that he had never written anything as spontaneously as La bonne chanson.

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