Musical Adaptations of Baudelaire's Poems

As we read A Carcass out loud in class, there were many comments that it almost sounded like a song. It turns out that there were tons of musical adaptations of his poems. Some even as recent as 2008. The first musical adaptations came out in 1890 by the French composer Claude Debussy. He came out with five different pieces of Baudelaire's work and was an important impressionist artist at the time. Debussy even has a piece in Twilight. There have been over twenty different adaptations of his works since then. In 2016, the Belgian Band Exsangue released a debut single in which the lyrics based off of a sonnet from The Flowers of Evil, The Lady from Malabar. A Belgium electronic band, Modern Cubism, released two albums that feature lyrics from poems by Baudelaire in 2008 and 2010. Apparently we weren't the only ones who thought his poem sounded like a song!