First published in the revue La Phalange, no. 24, June 15, 1908, in La Marchande des quatre saisons ou le bestiaire mondain, no. 2 of 18.

Text Authorship:

• by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "La Tortue", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 2, first published 1908 [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), "La Tortue", op. 1b no. 2 (1945-48), published 1994 [ voice and piano ], from Le Cortège d’Orphée, no. 2, Édition Durand & Fils [sung text not yet checked]
• by May Breguet (1916 - 2006), "La Tortue", 1992?, published 1992? [ high voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 2, Bern (Switzerland), Éd. Verlag Müller & Schade AG [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Caby (1905 - 1992), "La Tortue", 1948 [ medium voice and piano ], from Bestiaire, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Régis Campo (b. 1968), "La Tortue", 2007-08 [ soprano and orchestra or piano ], from Le Bestiaire, no. 1, Éd. Henry Lemoine (piano reduction) [sung text not yet checked]
• by Alain Corbellari (b. 1967), "La Tortue", first performed 1992 [ bass-baritone and piano ], from Le bestiaire bis, no. 1 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Robert Cornman (1924 - 2008), "La Tortue", 1972 [ medium voice and piano ], from Le Bestiaire (bêta) ou cortège d'Orphée, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
• by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "La Tortue", op. 17a no. 2 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 2 [sung text checked 1 time]

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

• ENG English (Peter Low) , "The Turtle", 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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Word count: 23