Masques et bergamasques

Music by Fauré, Op. 112, for an entertainment by René Fauchois produced in Monte Carlo on 10 April 1919; and at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on 4 March 1920, with a Watteau setting. It included an overture and three dances, newly composed, as well as the Pavane, Op. 50, of 1887 and an orchestral version of the Verlaine song ‘Clair de Lune’, Op. 46 no. 2, of the same year, in which the words ‘masques et bergamasques’ occur.