Plaisir Damour for Voice & Guitar

By: J.P.E. Martini
For: Voice + guitar
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Composer
J.P.E. Martini
Year of composition
1784
Arranger
Year of arrangement
2022
Lyricist
J.P. Claris De Florian
Difficulty
Difficult (Grades 7+)
Duration
3 minutes
Genre
Classical music
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Plaisir D'Amour must be one of the best known tunes of the 20th century. The original version was published in 1785 and was an immediate success. A classical French love song written in 1784 by Jean-Paul-Égide Martini (1741–1816); it took its text from a poem by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian (1755–1794), which appears in his novel Célestine. Hector Berlioz arranged it for orchestra (H134) in 1859 but the best known version has to be that of Elvis Presley. He changed the words and only used the tune of the chorus – Plaisir D’Amour – adding in a second section to what became ‘Can’t Help Falling In Love’. Joan Baez in 1966, The Seekers with Judith Durham in 2009 at their reunion concert, Nana Mouskouri, Mary Hopkins, in Welsh, have all recorded the song though they used different English lyrics as the basis for their versions while keeping the French Plaisir D’Amour as a chorus. This arrangement uses the French lyrics and follows Martini’s original harmonies but is arranged to better suit the guitar. It is a more comprehensive song with two other sections which always return to the original Plaisir D’Amour.

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