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Francis Poulenc. Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc ( French: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʁsɛl pulɛ̃k]; 7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and orchestral concert music. Among the best-known are the piano suite Trois ...
This is a list of works written by the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899–1963). As a pianist, Poulenc composed many pieces for his own instrument in his piano music and chamber music. He wrote works for orchestra including several concertos, also three operas, two ballets, incidental music for plays and film music.
Francis Poulenc was a composer who made an important contribution to French music in the decades after World War I and whose songs are considered among the best composed during the 20th century. Poulenc was largely self-taught. His first compositions—Rapsodie Nègre (1917), Trois Mouvements.
Nov 3, 2015 · Francis Poulenc - Sonata for Flute and Piano. - Composer: Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (7 January 1899 -- 30 January 1963) - Performers: Michel Debost (flute), Jacques Février (piano) - Year...
Poulenc’s religious music was frequently performed in the US and Britain, and Dialogues des Carmélites, commissioned by La Scala in Milan, rapidly gained international success. Poulenc died of a heart attack in Paris on 30 January 1963.
Francis Poulenc. Among France's leading modern composers, Poulenc was noted for the generous lyricism of his music and his gifts for expressing both profundity and lighthearted wit. Read Full Biography.
Poulenc in the early 1920s. This is a list of solo piano pieces by Francis Poulenc.
Francis Poulenc. Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc was a French composer and pianist. His compositions include songs, solo piano works, chamber music, choral pieces, operas, ballets, and...
Poulenc could write music that made you laugh one moment and cry the next, effortlessly manipulating mood and colour. His gift for melting melodies helps, but so does the sophistication of his harmonic language and his ear for seductive instrumentation.
Today he may be the most fêted of the French composer group Les Six but Poulenc was a contradictory character full of self-doubt
