by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire
La mouche
Language: French (Français)
Available translation(s): ENG
Nos mouches savent des chansons Que leur apprirent en Norvège Les mouches ganiques qui sont Les divinités de la neige.
Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La mouche", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 15, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "La mouche", op. 1b no. 15 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 15, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alain Corbellari (b. 1967), "La mouche", first performed 1992 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from Le bestiaire bis, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La mouche", op. 17a no. 15 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 15 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ENG English (Laura Prichard) , "The Fly", copyright © 2023, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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