Le Bestiaire (ou cortège d'Orphée)

Le Bestiaire (ou cortège d'Orphée) (FR) The Bestiary (or Procession of Orpheus). Poulenc's settings (1918/19) for voice and small instrumental band (string quartet, flute, clarinet, and bassoon) or piano of poems by Apollinaire from Le Bestiaire (1911). Eighteen of the poems first appeared in La Phalange on 15 June 1908, titled »La Marchande des quatre-saisons ou le Bestiaire mondaine« (The Pushcart-Merchant or A Worldly Bestiary). The volume was republished in 1918, accompanied by woodcuts by…