Toréador

Toréador (FR) Toreador. »Chanson Hispano-Italienne« (Spanish-Italian chanson). Poulenc's setting (1918 / 19, rev. 1932) for baritone voice and piano (also conceived for a small instrumental band, that version lost) of words by Cocteau, written in 1917 for, but not used in, a concert-hall version of music-hall entertainment planned for 1918 at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. Cocteau sent the words to Poulenc in a letter of 13 September 1918, while the composer was in military detention for…