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Op. 71: Duo d'Étoiles (Duos No. 5)

Publisher: Enoch & Costallat
Date: 1892
Instrumentation: Soprano and mezzo-soprano and piano

Dedicated to Elisabeth et Noëmie Fuchs, with text by Armand Silvestre. The poem tells of two stars that sing only of love, yet can never experience it themselves, for stars are neither human nor audible. It suggests that these stars may once have been human beings who died without ever knowing the fulfillment of love, and who now mourn their loss from the heavens. E. & C. 2098.