Cimetière

Cimetière (FR) Cemetery. Poulenc's setting (1931, Cinq Poèmes de Max Jacob #2) for voice and piano of the ninth poem from Poèmes de Morven le Gaëlique (1953, posth.) by Jacob. Poulenc writes that the song »smells of the pearl wreaths one buys at the grocery. Altogether a bit in bad taste. Sing it straightforwardly.« (See couronne en fer peint.) The song is dedicated to Madeleine Vhita.