Francis Poulenc
Born: 7th January 1899, Paris
Died: 30th January 1963, Paris
Nationality: French
Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc 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 mouvements perpétuels (1919), the ballet Les biches (1923), the Concert champêtre (1928) for harpsichord and orchestra, the Organ Concerto (1938), the opera Dialogues des Carmélites (1957), and the Gloria (1959) for soprano, choir, and orchestra.
As the only son of a prosperous manufacturer, Poulenc was expected to follow his father into the family firm, and he was not allowed to enrol at a conservatoire. He studied with the pianist Ricardo Viñes, who became his mentor after the composer's parents died.
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Further Reading: Poulenc
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Charles Owen & Katya Apekisheva on the art of the piano duo
27th Dec 2023
The curators of the London Piano Festival reflect on what makes the perfect partner on the piano-bench, and discuss their new album of music by Poulenc, Milhaud and Debussy (released on Orchid Classics last month).
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Mathieu Romano on Ensemble Aedes
18th Dec 2023
The French conductor talks about the choir which he founded as a twenty-one-year-old student in Paris, their mission to be 'specialists of nothing', and their close rapport with his mentor François-Xavier Roth & Les Siècles.
Popular Genres: Poulenc
Chamber
Instrumental
Vocal
Choral
Concertos
Popular Works: Poulenc
- Banalités (48)
- Cello Sonata, Op. 143 (47)
- Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184 (113)
- Concert champêtre (27)
- Concerto in D minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra (50)
- Concerto in G minor for Organ, Strings & Timpani (63)
- Deux poèmes de Louis Aragon (24)
- Elégie for horn and piano, Op. 168 (27)
- Exultate Deo (26)
- Fiançailles pour rire, FP101 (39)
- Flute Sonata, Op. 164 (108)
- Gloria (40)
- L'Embarquement pour Cythère, for 2 pianos (24)
- L'histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (30)
- La courte paille (31)
- Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee (32)
- Les chemins de l'amour (100)
- Les Soirées de Nazelles (24)
- Litanies à la Vierge noire (36)
- Mass in G major (25)
- Mélancolie (36)
- Oboe Sonata, Op. 185 (51)
- Piano Concerto in C sharp minor, FP 146 (1949) (25)
- Presto in B flat major (36)
- Priez pour paix (29)
- Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël (45)
- Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (27)
- Quatre petites prières de Saint François d'Assise (39)
- Salve Regina (52)
- Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179 (36)
- Sextet for piano and wind quintet, Op. 100 (45)
- Sonata for Piano Four Hands (à mademoiselle Simone Tilliard) (24)
- Sonata for Two Pianos (46)
- Stabat mater (27)
- Suite française (d'après Claude Gervaise), FP80 (38)
- Tel jour telle nuit (25)
- Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon (58)
- Trois Mouvements perpétuels (52)
- Un soir de neige (35)
- Violin Sonata, FP 119 (80)
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