Trois Mélodies, Op. 7 (Fauré)

Trois Mélodies
Songs by Gabriel Fauré
The composer in 1875
Opus7
TextPoems by anon., Baudelaire and Marc Monnier
LanguageFrench
Composed1870 (1870)–1877
Published1878 (1878)
Movementsthree
Scoringvoice and piano

Trois Mélodies is a set of mélodies for solo voice and piano, by Gabriel Fauré. It consists of "Après un rêve" (Op. 7, No. 1), one of Fauré's most popular vocal pieces, "Hymne" (Op. 7, No. 2), and "Barcarolle" (Op. 7, No. 3). The songs were written between 1870 and 1877, and published in 1878. They were not, however, originally conceived together as a set of three; the opus number 7 was imposed on them retrospectively in the 1890s, almost 20 years after their first publications.