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1993
Abstract Once considered as little more than the froth in the wake of the First World War, a witty boy-hedonist who, in the giddy Twenties, tweaked the noses of moribund establishmentarians, Poulenc has in fact proved unexpectedly durable - more so than any of his colleagues among Les Six, including those who developed more grandiose ...
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Abstract Once considered as little more than the froth in the wake of the First World War, a witty boy-hedonist who, in the giddy Twenties, tweaked the noses of moribund establishmentarians, Poulenc has in fact proved unexpectedly durable - more so than any of his colleagues among Les Six, including those who developed more grandiose ...
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Francis Poulenc, Profane and Sacred
Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 2013In the Parisian world of musical composition between World War I and World War II, Francis Poulenc was not deemed a first-tier composer. Foremost at that level were Igor Stravinsky and Darius Milhaud. By 1958, however, when Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic wanted to commission a work for the presti- gious 1962 opening of Lincoln Center ...
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1998
geb. 7. 1. 1899 Paris; gest. 30. 1. 1963 Paris. Ab 1914 Kl.-Unterricht u.a. bei Ricardo Vines; durch diesen Bekanntschaft mit Erik Satie und Georges Auric. Kompositionsstudien bei Charles Koechlin; 1917 Auffuhrung der ersten eigenen Komposition Rhapsodie negre; 1919 Mitglied der ›Groupe des Six‹, gemeinsame Konzerte und Gruppenwerke; 1921 zusammen mit ...
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geb. 7. 1. 1899 Paris; gest. 30. 1. 1963 Paris. Ab 1914 Kl.-Unterricht u.a. bei Ricardo Vines; durch diesen Bekanntschaft mit Erik Satie und Georges Auric. Kompositionsstudien bei Charles Koechlin; 1917 Auffuhrung der ersten eigenen Komposition Rhapsodie negre; 1919 Mitglied der ›Groupe des Six‹, gemeinsame Konzerte und Gruppenwerke; 1921 zusammen mit ...
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The Music of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963): A Catalogue
Notes, 1997The name of Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was first brought to prominence in the 1920s as a member of Les Six, a group of young French composers encouraged by Satie and Cocteau. His subsequent fame spread well beyond France, and he is coming to be regarded as one of this century's most significant composers.
George Keck, Carl B. Schmidt
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Surrealism in Francis Poulenc’s Bal masqué
2009In the fall of 1931, the Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Noailles commissioned Francis Poulenc to contribute to a "spectacle-concert" to be held in Hyere, the site of their country home. Although there is no written account of the soiree held at the Theatre d'Hyeres on April 20, 1932, there is a photograph showing ten of the people in attendance that evening.
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Francis Poulenc 1899-1963 (1964)
2003Abstract To the average Englishman, Francis Poulenc’s music may have appeared that of the typical French composer: witty, daring, sentimental, naughty. In fact Francis was very easily depressed, shockable, unsure, and liable to panic. No one who saw it will ever forget his agony in a boat on Thorpeness Meare, and it was really his horror
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, 2020 Francis Poulenc: a bio-bibliography
Choice Reviews Online, 1991Jane H. Galante +4 more
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