La couronne

La couronne (FR) The Crown. Poulenc's setting (1934, Huit chansons polonaises #1) for voice and piano of a translation of »Wianek,« a Polish patriotic text and melody. The words and music are by François Kowalski (1799 – 1832), an under-lieutenant in the Wolynian and Lithuanian Legion. The original title of the melody is »The Young Girl and the Krakus.« A Krakus is a soldier from Krakow, Poland. It tells the story of a girl weeping at the departure of her fiancé who joins the army at Lublin…