Trois Mélodies, Op. 7 (Fauré)
| Trois Mélodies | |
|---|---|
| Songs by Gabriel Fauré | |
The composer in 1875 | |
| Opus | 7 |
| Text | Poems by anon., Baudelaire and Marc Monnier |
| Language | French |
| Composed | 1870–1877 |
| Published | 1878 |
| Movements | three |
| Scoring | voice 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.