Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne

Trois Poèmes de Louise Lalanne (FR) Three Poems by Louise Lalanne. Poulenc's settings (1931) for voice and piano of poems actually written by Guillaume Apollinaire (»Chanson«) and Marie Laurencin (»Le Présent« and »Hier«). With the complicity of Eugène Montfort (1877 – 1936), director of the revue Les Marges, Apollinaire adopted the pseudonym of Louise Lalanne in order to write pieces about contemporary women of letters: Anna de Noailles (1876 – 1933), and Colette Willy among others. Louise…