1904

1904 Poulenc's setting (1931, Quatre Poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire #4) for voice and piano of a poem by Apollinaire. The poem was written during Apollinaire's trip to Strasbourg as reporter for L'Européen. He was assigned to cover a trial (9–11 November 1903) of one Lieutenant Fritz Oswald Bilse (1878–1951), a German officer who turned tail and wrote a defamatory, scathing satire of German military life. The poem was first published in Les Soirées de Paris on 15 May 1914. » A note on the…