Simplify the following text for a Grade 4 native English-speaking person.
Original: He wrote over 100 mÃ lodies and has been called the French Schumann , though their styles and essential temperaments were very different . FaurÃ is best remembered for his setting of poems by Verlaine , ( MÃ lodies de Venise ) .
Simplified: He wrote more than 100 mÃ lodies , many based on poems by Verlaine .