Guillaume Apollinaire
Poet
Guillaume Apollinaire
1880 - 1918Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish-Belarusian descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement and the term "surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. The term Orphism (1912) is also his. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for the 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
Apollinaire was active as a journalist and art critic for Le Matin, L'Intransigeant, L'Esprit nouveau, Mercure de France, and Paris Journal. In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded Les Soirées de Paris, an artistic and literary magazine.
Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; he was 38.
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Song List
This list is likely to be of songs that have been performed at Oxford International Song Festivals and Oxford Song events, and may not be comprehensive of this composer's compositions. This database is ever growing as a work in progress, with further songs regularly being added.
| Bleuet (1939) FP 102 | Francis Poulenc |
| Chanson d’Orkenise (1940) FP 107 no.1 | Francis Poulenc |
| Fagnes de Wallonie (1940) FP 107 no.3 | Francis Poulenc |
| Hôtel (1940) FP 107 no.2 | Francis Poulenc |
| Hyde Park (1941) FP 127 no.2 1941-1945 | Francis Poulenc |
| Il pleut | Kaija Saariaho |
| La carpe, 'The carp' (1919) FP 15a no.6 | Francis Poulenc |
| La chèvre du Thibet, 'The Tibetan goat' (1919) FP 15a no.2 | Francis Poulenc |
| La sauterelle, 'The grasshopper' (1919) FP 15a no.3 | Francis Poulenc |
| Le dauphin, 'The dolphin' (1919) FP 15a no.4 | Francis Poulenc |
| Le dromadaire, 'The camel' (1919) FP 15a no.1 | Francis Poulenc |
| Le serpent FP 15b/1 | Francis Poulenc |
| L’écrevisse, 'The crayfish' (1919) FP 15a no.5 | Francis Poulenc |
| Montparnasse FP 127 | Francis Poulenc |
| Sanglots (1940) FP 107 no.5 | Francis Poulenc |
| v. Sanglots (from 'Banalités', FP 107) | Francis Poulenc |
| Voyage à Paris (1940) FP 107 no.4 | Francis Poulenc |
