Le Mendiant

Le Mendiant (FR) The Beggar. Poulenc's setting (1942, Chansons villageoises #4) for voice and orchestra (or piano) of a poem from A dos d'oiseau: »Chansons de la grande hune« (Bird's-Eye View: »Songs of the Great Watch Platform,« 1945), the 10th poem in the »Chansons de la petite terre« (Songs of the Little Earth) division within it by Fombeure. The original title of the poem is »Complainte de Jean Martin.« Poulenc repeats the seventh and eighth lines of the poem, leaves out the 26th line »Vive…