Text Authorship:

• by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Chat", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 6, 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 Jean Absil (1893 - 1974), "Le Chat", op. 58 no. 5 (1944), published 1964 [ SATB quartet a cappella ], from Bestiaire. Cinq petites pièces pour quatuor vocal mixte sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 5, Paris : Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
• by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "Le Chat", op. 1b no. 6 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 6, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "Le Chat", 1945 [ medium voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Régis Campo (b. 1968), "Le Chat", 2007-08 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 8, Éd. Henry Lemoine (piano reduction) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alain Corbellari (b. 1967), "Le Chat", first performed 1992 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from Le bestiaire bis, no. 8 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "Le Chat", 1961-1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (alpha) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "Le Chat", op. 17a no. 6 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 6 [sung text checked 1 time]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

• ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Cat", copyright © 2022, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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