Georges Braque

Georges Braque Poulenc's setting (1956, Le Travail du peintre #3) for voice and piano of the 27th poem from the Nouveaux Poèmes (New Poems) section of Capitale de la douleur (Capital of Sorrow, 1926) by Eluard. The poem was first published in La Révolution surréaliste on 15 July 1925, with only lines 5, 3, 2, and 5. Poulenc writes: » [the song] is the subtlest, the most elaborate of the collection. There is perhaps too much taste in it, but that's how I feel Braque. One must accompany it with…