L'Écrevisse | Incertitude, ô mes délices

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire

L'Écrevisse

Language: French (Français)

Our translations: ENG GER ITA

Incertitude, ô mes délices 
Vous et moi nous nous en allons 
Comme s'en vont les écrevisses, 
À reculons, à reculons.

Text Authorship:

by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "L'Écrevisse", written 1910, appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 22, 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), "L'Écrevisse", op. 58 no. 2 (1944), published 1964 [ SATB quartet a cappella ], from Bestiaire. Cinq petites pièces pour quatuor vocal mixte sur des poèmes de Guillaume Apollinaire, no. 2, Paris : Henry Lemoine & Cie. [sung text not yet checked]
by Claude Ballif (1924 - 2004), "L'Écrevisse", op. 1b no. 22 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 22, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "L'Écrevisse", 1961-1963 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (alpha) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 7 [sung text not yet checked]
by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "L'Écrevisse", op. 17a no. 22 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 22 [sung text checked 1 time]
by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "L'Écrevisse", FP 15a no. 5 (1919), published 1920 [ medium voice and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 5, Éd. de La Sirène [sung text checked 1 time]

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