L'Enfant muet

L'Enfant muet (FR) The Mute Boy. Poulenc's setting (1947, Trois Chansons de F. Garcia-Lorca #1) for voice and piano of a translation of »El niño mudo,« the third poem from Trasmundo (In Search of the World, or, Afterworld), the ninth section of the volume Canciones (Songs, 1921 / 24) by Lorca. The same poem was set in the original Spanish by George Crumb (b. 1929) in his Ancient Voices of Children (1970). The song is dedicated to Geneviève Touraine.