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Le secret
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Le secret by Gabriel Faure SSATB - Sheet Music

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Le secret Arrangement by Denis Rouger by Gabriel Faure SSATB - Sheet Music

By Gabriel Faure
SSATB Choir, Piano - Grade 3

SKU: CA.927800

Arrangement by Denis Rouger. Composed by Gabriel Faure. Arranged by Denis Rouger. Bearbeitungen: Arrangements of Lieder for choir. Score. Carus Verlag #CV 09.278/00. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.927800).

ISBN 9790007299293. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.

Armand Silvestre wanted to pursue a military career, but ended up working in a senior position in the French Ministry of Finance. He nonetheless devoted himself to his real passion – literature. Numerous composers were inspired by Silvestre’s poetry, first and foremost Gabriel Fauré. Fauré even set "Mystère" to music before the poem was published in the volume "Le pays des roses" (The land of the roses, 1882). He gave his "Mélodie" the different title of "Le secret": mysterious and melancholy, accompanied by simple, but harmonically rich piano sounds.

This art song was originally composed not for chamber choir, but for solo voice and piano. Denis Rouger has carefully adapted it to suit the requirements and expressive possibilities offered by a larger ensemble, without losing any of the qualities of the original in the process. Each part in the choir has a melodic line drawn from the harmonic and rhythmic framework. In the process, the variety and refinement of the choral language combines with an enormous flexibility in form and expression, as French melodies or German art song demand from a soloist and pianist.