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Tu t'acharnes sur la beauté. Et quelles femmes ont été Victimes de ta cruauté! Eve, Eurydice, Cléopâtre ; J'en connais encor trois ou quatre.
Text Authorship:
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Serpent", written 1910, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 5, first published 1911 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "Le Serpent", op. 1b no. 5 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 5, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le Serpent", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 5 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Alain Corbellari (b. 1967), "Le Serpent", first performed 1992 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from Le bestiaire bis, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "Le Serpent", 1961-1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (alpha) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Le Serpent", op. 17a no. 5 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 5 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "Le Serpent", FP 15b no. 1 (1918-1944) [ medium voice and piano ], from Deux Mélodies inédites du Bestiaire, no. 1, note: a recopied manuscript survives from 1944 [sung text checked 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- CAT Catalan (Català) (Salvador Pila) , "La serp", copyright © 2026, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Laura Stanfield Prichard) , "The serpent", copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 5
Word count: 23
T’acarnisses en la bellesa. I quines dones han estat víctimes de la teva crueltat! Eva, Eurídice, Cleòpatra; se m'acudeixen encara tres o quatre més.
Text Authorship:
- Translation from French (Français) to Catalan (Català) copyright © 2026 by Salvador Pila, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you may ask the copyright-holder(s) directly or ask us; we are authorized to grant permission on their behalf. Please provide the translator's name when contacting us.
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Based on:
- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Serpent", written 1910, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 5, first published 1911
This text was added to the website: 2026-04-25
Line count: 5
Word count: 24