[3] The composition of "Paradis" and "Prima verba" followed in September,[2] while Faure was visiting Stresa and Lausanne.
[7] Fauré's settings, selected from three of the four sections of van Lerberghe's collection, are as follows:[8] The first songs to be premiered were "Paradis", "Prima verba" and "Crépuscule", on 18 March 1908 at the Bechstein Hall, sung by Jeanne Raunay.
On 26 May 1909 at the Salle Érard, Raunay and Fauré premiered "Roses ardentes", "Comme Dieu rayonne", "L'aube blanche" and "Eau vivante", as well as performing the three earlier songs.
[1] Raunay and Fauré premiered the complete cycle on 20 – April 1910 at the first concert of the newly formed Société musicale indépendante.
[9] This occasion also saw the premieres of Claude Debussy's D'un cahier d'esquisses and Maurice Ravel's Ma mère l'oye.