Guillaume Apollinaire

Real name: Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary de Wąż-Kostrowicki
Born: August 26, 1880
Died: November 9, 1918
Country: France
IPI: 00001142166 2 works
00016622504 3 works
Affiliation: SACEM
Comments: French poet, novelist, literary and art critic., who was born in Rome, Italy. He 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. Two years after being wounded in World War I Apollinaire died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918; he was only 38.

Songs written by Guillaume Apollinaire

Title	Written by	Originally by	Original date	Covered by
L'adieu	Léo Ferré, Jean-Michel Defaye, Guillaume Apollinaire	Léo Ferré	1971	Covered by Joan Pau Verdier
Le pont Mirabeau	Léo Ferré, Guillaume Apollinaire	Léo Ferré	April 1953	Covered by (6 artists)
Marizibill	Léo Ferré, Guillaume Apollinaire	Léo Ferré	April 1984	Covered by (2 artists)
The Owl	Steve Lacy [US1], Guillaume Apollinaire	Steve Lacy [US1]	1975	Covered by (3 artists)