Clair de Lune

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Clair de Lune is French for "moonlight". It may refer to:

In literature

• "Clair de Lune" (poem), the poem by Paul Verlaine, published 1869
• "Clair de lune", a poem written by French author and poet Victor Hugo
• Clair de Lune, 1884 short story collection by Guy de Maupassant
• Clair de lune, 1921 play by Blanche Oelrichs, filmed in 1932
• Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune, a play by Terrence McNally first performed in 1987

In music

Artists

• Clair De Lune (band), a rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota

Classical Music

• "Clair de lune" (Debussy), third movement of Suite bergamasque by Claude Debussy, a piano depiction of a Paul Verlaine poem
• "Clair de lune" (Fauré), from Op. 46 "Two Songs" (1887) by Gabriel Fauré
• Clair de Lune, Opus 53, No. 5, from "24 Pièces de fantaisie: Deuxième Suite" for organ, by Louis Vierne
• Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 27, No. 2, known as 'Au Clair de lune' in French
• "Clair de lune", Opus 33, for piano (1908), by Belgian composer, Joseph Jongen

Contemporary popular music

• Clair de Lune, a song by Flight Facilities
• "Clair de Lune", song on Madonna (...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead album)
• "Clair de Lune / Ballerina", a song on the album Crystal Ball by Styx

• "Clair de Lune" (My Claire de Lune), by Steve Lawrence from the album "The Steve Lawrence Show" (Columbia 1965).

In other uses

• Claire de Lune (typeface), a typeface by Fonderie Deberny & Peignot

See also

• "Au Clair de la Lune", a French folk song

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