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LILI BOULANGER (1893-1918): "Clairières dans le ciel" - Selected Songs of Franz Schubert (1797-1828) & Gustav Mahler (1860-1911). Wiebke Hoogklimmer, alto; Patrick Walliser, piano. The song cycle Clairières dans le Ciel (Clearings in the Sky) was composed in 1914, belonging musically to French Impressionism. Like Debussy, Lili Boulanger was attracted to the Symbolist poetry of her time and, like him, she chose a work by Maurice Maeterlinck for her opera La Princesse Maleine' which unfortunately remained unfinished. Among her songs there are two more settings to music of MaeterIincks poems. In French Symbolism, which came to life in the literary world as a counter-movement to Positivism and Naturalism, the creation of an atmosphere takes precedence over an often negligible plot. True meaning is supposed to be hidden behind the words, in the silence between the words. Even if the poems of Francis Jammes do not show the same symbolic content and hidden secrets as, for example, the works of Maeterlinck, his cycle Clairières dans le Ciel can be said to belong to the Symbolist school, due to its pronounced symbolism of colour and nature and its strong religiousness. Francis Jammes was born on December 2, 1868 in Touray (Hautes Pyrénées) and died on November 1, 1938 in Hasparren (Pyrénées Atlantiques). He was a friend of André Gide and Paul Claudel. In 1905 he converted to Catholicism and led a simple provincial life. The main theme of his cycle of 24 poems called Tristesse is the unrequited love for a young girl and the lyric subjects subsequent longing for death. Lili Boulanger chose 13 poems from this cycle to be set to music and called them Clairiéres dans Ie Ciel (the title was also taken from Jammes, who had given it to a voluminous collection of his poetry, of which Tristesse was a part).