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Incertitude, ô mes délices Vous et moi nous nous en allons Comme s'en vont les écrevisses, À reculons, à reculons.
Authorship
- by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "L'écrevisse", 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 verified ]
- 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 verified ]
- by Louis Durey (1888 - 1979), "L'écrevisse", op. 17a no. 22 (1919), from Le Bestiaire, no. 22. [ sung text verified 1 time]
- by Francis Poulenc (1899 - 1963), "L'écrevisse", FP. 15a, from Le Bestiaire, no. 5. [ sung text verified 1 time]
Available translations, adaptations, and transliterations (if applicable):
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Paolo Montanari) , title 1: "Il gambero", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ENG English (Michael P. Rosewall) , title 1: "The crawfish", copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , title 1: "Der Krebs", copyright © 2017, (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.
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Word count: 20
Incertezza, o mia delizia, voi ed io ce ne andiamo come se ne vanno i gamberi, all'indietro, all'indietro.
Authorship
- Translation from French (Français) to Italian (Italiano) copyright © 2010 by Paolo Montanari, (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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- a text in French (Français) by Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki (1880 - 1918), as Guillaume Apollinaire, "L'écrevisse", appears in Le Bestiaire, ou Cortège d'Orphée, no. 22, first published 1911
This text was added to the website: 2010-04-04
Line count: 4
Word count: 18