Paul Éluard
Although Arrieu's instrumental works strongly contributed to her legacy, it is vocal music that most markedly distinguish her career. Voice inspired her to set many poems to music, including those by Joachim du Bellay, Louise Levêque de Vilmorin, Louis Aragon, Jean Cocteau, Jean Tardieu, Stéphane Mallarmé, and Paul Éluard. Examples include "Chansons bas" for voice and piano based on poems by Mallarmé (1937); "Candide", radio music on texts by Jean Tardieu based on Voltaire; and "À la Libération", cantata of seven poems on love in war, on poems by Paul Éluard.