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Francis Poulenc
12+ albums
Classicalcontemporary classicalfrenchAvant-Garde20th Century
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Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French Group Les Six. He was a Parisian by birth and death, and always preferred the city to the country. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life. Poulenc was a member of Les Six, a group of young French composers, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre, who also had links with Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau. He embraced the Dada movement's techniques, creating melodies that would have been appropriate for Parisian music halls. An outstanding pianist, Poulenc featured the keyboard in many of his early compositions. He also, throughout his career, borrowed from his own compositions as well as those of Mozart and Camille Saint-Saëns. He composed music in all major genres, including art song, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music and orchestral music. Among Poulenc's last series of major works is a series of works for Winds and Piano. He was particularly fond of the woodwind instruments, and planned a set of sonatas for all of them, yet only lived to complete four: the Flute Sonata (1956), and sonatas for oboe, clarinet and horn. Poulenc's Rapsodie nègre (1917), written for baritone, piano, string quartet, flute, and clarinet, sets nonsense syllables purportedly by a black Liberian poet. The piece, dedicated to Erik Satie, kept him out of the Paris Conservatoire, compos
top songs
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Nocturnes n°7 en mi majeur
78,8022Poulenc: Cello Sonata, FP 143: II. Cavatine
40,1533Mélancolie, FP 105
27,7144Nocturne No. 7 in Eb Major, FP. 56
27,6315Nocturnes n°4 en ut mineur
22,2276Cappricio
20,9077Piano Concerto in C-Sharp Minor, FP 146: I. Allegretto commodo - Live
20,3918Sanglots
13,3069Trois Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14: I. Assez modéré
13,29710Stabat Mater dolorosa
13,020albums
Poulenc : Pièces pour Piano
POULENC: Stabat Mater / Gloria / Litanies
Poulenc: Piano Concerto, Organ Concerto & Stabat Mater (Live)
Le Groupe des Six
POULENC: Melodies
POULENC: Violin Sonata / Clarinet Sonata / Cello Sonata
Poulenc: Music for Piano
Poulenc: Works for Piano Solo and Duo
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Improvisation No. 7 in C Major. Modéré sans lenteur, FP 63 No. 7
POULENC: Organ Concerto / Concert Champetre
Francis Poulenc: Music for Piano (1918-1959)
POULENC: Sextet / Trio / Oboe Sonata / Flute Sonata