Claude Debussy · 1862–1918
Auprès de cette grotte sombre
Performer not credited · 2:21
Claude Debussy 's: The Cave (« La Grotte »), n. 2 of the Three Songs of France (« Trois Chansons de France », 1904), a cycle of French melodies based on poems by Charles of Orléans and Tristan L'Hermite . The Cave , with a title given by the composer and reminiscent of the 3rd scene of Act 2 of his opera Pelléas and Mélisande (« Pelléas et Mélisande »), is a musical setting of the ode The Walk of the Two Lovers (« Le Promenoir des deux amants »), by L'Hermite. The poem by L'Hermite ( The Walk of the Two Lovers ) , in French , with the first verse as the title: Near this dark cave (« Auprès de cette grotte sombre »); in PDF .