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	Clarinet Sonata (Poulenc) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Poulenc's Clarinet Sonata for clarinet and piano dates from 1962.
		Because Poulenc died before the piece was published, editors have had to guess as to the identity of some notes, as well as missing dynamics and articulations.
		The sonata is the second of Poulenc's three sonatas for wind instruments, the others being the Flute Sonata (1956) and the Oboe Sonata (1962).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clarinet_Sonata_(Poulenc) (194 words)

	Francis Poulenc
		Poulenc was never to lose his love of wind instruments, but there does appear to have been a mild rapprochement in the 1940s with the hitherto slighted strings, both in the Sonatas for violin and for cello with piano, and in orchestral works such as the Piano Concerto and, particularly, in the Sinfonietta of 1947.
		Poulenc was anxious to point out that the work was not simply the result of a “stream of consciousness”, but that the first and last movements were based on structures by Haydn and Saint-Saëns respectively.
		Poulenc’s father Emile, on the other hand, from the Aveyron district, between Toulouse and the Massif Central, was a devout Roman Catholic.
	www.chesternovello.com /composer/1265/main.html (1792 words)

	PAUL SPERRY :: FRANCIS POULENC
		Poulenc's declamation will not be clumsy, nor will it obscure the text, but often one feels as if the line is governed more by the meaning behind the words than by the words themselves-more by the tone of voice needed to read them properly than by their speech rhythms.
		Poulenc wrote, "It is not only the lines of the poem that must be set to music, but all that lies between the lines and in the margins." Bernac's elegant and expressive enunciation helped Poulenc immeasurably in realizing his aim.
		Poulenc and Bernac had identical views on the responsibility of a composer to his text and of a performer to both poetry and music.
	www.paulsperry.net /articles/poulenc.html (2633 words)

	Poulenc, Francis on Encyclopedia.com
		POULENC, FRANCIS [Poulenc, Francis], 1899-1963, French composer and pianist.
		unorthodox.Poulenc, FrancisstudioA self-taught and sometimes unorthodox musical figure, French composer Francis Poulenc is chiefly remembered for works including the operas
		WVU Opera Theatre presents Poulenc's 'Dialogues of the Carmelites'.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/Poulenc.asp (327 words)

	Francis Poulenc program notes (Apr'04) Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
		Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) has been called both a monk and a street urchin, because his music swung between extremes of impudent irony and devout religion.
		But there was also a dark side to Poulenc's personality, and in the 1930s a series of disastrous love affairs (mostly with younger men) and the death of a friend, the composer-critic Pierre Octave-Ferroud, precipitated a return to the Catholic Church and a spate of powerful religious works.
		Poulenc and Jacqes Février gave the work its premier on September 5 of the same year at the Venice Festival, with the La Scala Orchestra, conducted by Désiré Defauw.
	www.chamberorchestraofthesprings.org /Poulen44.htm (297 words)

	Francis Poulenc: Dialogues des Carmelites
		Poulenc's musical language here is direct and unashamedly human, and his theme -- the imposition of state politics on the individual during the French Revolution and the need for person principles in a secular age -- is still timely.
		Poulenc has written immensely sympathetic music for Blanche's brother, the Chevalier, especially the ardent duet he has with his sister, which Léonard Pezzino sings perfectly.
		These conflicts are dramatized in Poulenc's unlikely heroine, Blanche de la Force, a high-strung girl from a rich family who can't cope with the world, and so decides to become a Carmelite nun.
	www.msu.edu /user/gualtie3/Poulenc.html (694 words)

	Classical Classics - Poulenc's Gloria, Classical Notes, Peter Gutmann
		Poulenc was largely self-taught and thus apt to absorb a wider range of musical sources than those normally imposed by strict classical training.
		Poulenc then studied with Ricardo Vi&, a pioneering pianist who championed the then-new work of Debussy, Ravel and others on the cutting edge of modernism.
		Poulenc not only developed into a fine pianist himself, but absorbed that special feeling of delicate sensuality intrinsic to French music.
	www.classicalnotes.net /classics/gloria.html (1241 words)

	Learn - Francis Poulenc - Arizona Opera
		Francis Poulenc was born in Paris, France on January 7, 1899.
		Poulenc studied piano with Ricardo Vines and composition with Charles Koechlin, although this study was limited and Poulenc was considered to be primarily a self-taught composer.
		Poulenc cared passionately about his composition and although he aspired to write grand opera, he felt that his technical shortcomings were of concern and put off writing opera for almost 40 years.
	www.azopera.com /learn.php?subcat=composerbios&composer=Poulenc (742 words)

	WGUC 90.9 FM Essential Poulenc
		Francis Poulenc was roughly a contemporary of American composer Aaron Copland, born one year earlier than Copland, in 1899.
		Poulenc was visiting relatives in Bordeaux during World War II who successfully prodded him to play some of his music on their piano.
		Poulenc improvised an accompaniment as he read the story aloud, but soon the children in the neighborhood were there, asking to hear it again.
	www.wguc.org /content/display.asp?id=23 (1468 words)

	Vancouver Opera :: Dialogues of the Carmelites - INSIGHT - Graceful Composer
		Poulenc’s spiritual life, and his patriotic commitment to France in the face of the dark Nazi threat, attuned him to the themes of terror, faith, and conscience in the true story of the Carmelite nuns of Compiègne.
		Undoubtedly Poulenc felt the sting of persecution in his private life – he was gay – but it is the theme of grace, achieved despite fear and doubt, which seems most to have resonated with him.
		Poulenc later said that his lover took his last breath just as the last notes were composed.
	www.vancouveropera.ca /insights/Dialogues-Graceful.html (858 words)

	French Culture Music Glimmerglass Opera : Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites
		The Glimmerglass Opera, near Cooperstown, New York, presents French composer Francis Poulenc's harrowing masterpiece Dialogues of the Carmelites, in a new co-production with the New York City Opera.
		Poulenc himself commented on the opera to a friend: "it just flows and flows and it is nothing but myselfit is madly vocal...when I play it to you, you will weep and weep.
		Poulenc's music has been praised for its characteristic ecstasy of expression and subtlety of harmony, its lofty reaches of melodic grace and passionate loveliness.
	www.frenchculture.org /music/events/02poulencdialog-gg.html (368 words)

	AE: Poulenc Potpourri (Poulenc Bio)
		Francis Poulenc is one of the most popular composers of his century.
		Poulenc's letters, not only good reading but a revealing biographical analysis of his own works, make it clear that his sexuality was central to his composition, in so far as several of his major works - including the sacred Ð were inspired by his lovers.
		Poulenc looked for influence to Erik Satie, yet he pillaged older masters Ð from Mozart to Saint-Saëns- for musical ideas; and it is this anthological aspect of Poulenc's music that makes it particularly hard to pin him to a specific musical identity.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~echew/projects/AureliusEnsemble/1999/iap/poulenc.html (592 words)

	ArkivMusic Poulenc: The Complete Chamber Music / Nash Ensemble
		Poulenc had an affinity for the bright, even strident sounds of woodwind instruments, which are featured in the majority of the works here, and his keyboard expertise is evident in the demanding piano accompaniments, performed enthusiastically by Ian Brown throughout the program.
		The performers make a strong case for Poulenc's greater and lesser works alike in a collection that attests to his stature as a major contributor to 20th-century music.
		In commemoration of Poulenc's centenary, the members of the Nash Ensemble have come together in various permutations to record his complete chamber works.
	www.arkivmusic.com /classical/album.jsp?site_id=CTRV&album_id=16965 (339 words)

	Entertainment in MaineToday.com Local Music Bulletin Board news releases: Program notes for Aug 28th Poulenc Concert at Bates College
		Francis Poulenc was at the center of the 20th century art world for his entire life (1899-1963).
		Poulenc was most comfortable with harmony, and restricting himself to two parts meant he had to “go against the grain” and learn to write contrapuntally.
		Poulenc has a well-deserved reputation as a practical joker and mimic.
	bulletinboard.mainetoday.com /newsitem.html?news=574 (499 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Poulenc, Francis
		Poulenc never entirely abandoned the light gracefulness of his earlier music, but many of the later compositions are notably deeper and more serious.
		Poulenc toured widely, mostly as a means of raising money, but did not enjoy traveling beyond the confines of the comfortable and familiar parts of Europe.
		Poulenc found the tours difficult, for they separated him from his lover of the time, Lucien Roubert, who died of pleurisy in 1955, just after Poulenc completed one of his masterpieces, the opera Les dialogues des Carmélites.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/poulenc_f.html (1238 words)

	153-4034.htm
		Francis Poulenc joined a circle of young composers gathered around the eccentric Erik Satie, the famous scribbler of whimsically titled pieces (``Gymnopédies,'' ``Vexations'' and the like) with nonsensical comments running through the scores.
		All right, it's an exaggeration to say that Francis Poulenc was the Sid Vicious of 1920s French art music.
		Most of Poulenc's music is available on imported EMI compact discs, reissues of recordings from the 1960s and '70s by musicians who had worked closely with the composer.
	www.azstarnet.com /public/packages/reelbook/153-4034.htm (1444 words)

	andante boutique - poulenc : figure humaine - choeur de chambre accentus - laurence equilbey
		Francis Poulenc was a master of choral works, a lover of the written word, a friend of poets.
		It was during the summer of 1943 that Francis Poulenc composed Figure humaine, to Paul Eluard's texts, including his famous Liberté, which the RAF dropped in the form of leaflets over France.
		With Figure humaine, the harmony between the poetry of Paul Eluard and the music of Francis Poulenc attained a perfection rarely achieved in twentieth-century choral works, so much as that Eluard thanked the composer for making him aware of the lyrical qualities of his own prosody...
	www.andante.com /boutique/shop/index.cfm?action=displayProduct&iProductID=645 (341 words)

	Poulenc's Stabat Mater
		FRANCIS POULENC (20TH CENTURY COMPOSERS SERIES), a biography of Francis Poulenc by Benjamin Ivry, is available from Barnes and Noble.
		Francis Poulenc composed his Stabat Mater, for soprano, mixed chorus and orchestra, during 1950 and 1951.
		Poulenc was moved to write the work by the death of a friend, Christian Bérard, a painter and set designer.
	www.geocities.com /jrpsong/stabat.html (665 words)

	Francis Poulenc Bio
		In a 1931 letter to a friend, Francis Poulenc rather poignantly stated, ‘ It is more courageous to grow just as one is than to force-feed one’s flowers with the fertilizer of fashion’.
		The text is utter nonsense, and Poulenc jumped at the chance to create a work that would at once draw the masses with its fashionable flavor and offer him a venue to deliver sarcasm.
		In fact, the sorts of in-depth analyses that are afforded to Poulenc’s fellow composers are often spared on this elusive man, who has been known as quintessential Parisian, disciple of Igor Stravinsky, musical clown, and devout Catholic.
	www.bsu.edu /web/msosborn/poulenc.htm (571 words)

	Naxos.com, Your World of Classical Music
		The French composer Francis Poulenc only undertook formal musical training with Charles Koechlin in 1921, by which time he had already become identified with Les Six, the six French composers of the circle of Jean Cocteau, including Honegger, Auric and Milhaud.
		This ability is exemplified in Poulenc's sonatas for flute, for clarinet and for oboe and piano, in addition to an attractive Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano.
		Poulenc's orchestral music includes a suite from Les biches, a charming Concert champêtre for harpsichord and small orchestra, as well as concertos for organ, for piano and for two pianos.
	www.naxos.com /mainsite?pn=Composers&char=P&ComposerID=821 (592 words)

	Francis Poulenc
		Francis Poulenc was born on 7th January 1899 in Paris into a family whose prosperity came from pharmaceutical engineering: his father, Emile, was the director of the pharmaceutical company Poulenc Freres (now called Rhone-Poulenc Rorer).
		At the age of 17 Poulenc began to associate with a group of young composers which had gravitated towards Erik Satie and the writer Jean Cocteau.
		During 1999 the choir performed a programme of pieces by Poulenc to celebrate the Centenary of his birth.
	www.citychoir.org.uk /Poulenc.htm (271 words)

	Cantori New York: Francis Poulenc
		Francis Poulenc, (born Paris, Jan. 7, 1899, died Jan. 30, 1963) wrote the first of his many religious works in 1936.
		Poulenc’s range of expression is immediately manifest in Timor et tremor: the unison chorus cries in fear to begin the motet, and ends it with a plaintive chromatic descent, lushly harmonized.
		Poulenc gives Jesus’s dying words in Tenebrae factae sunt a soaring melody and almost unbearably poignant harmonization, ending in the traditional tonality of the most sacred, B minor.
	www.cantorinewyork.com /composers_archive/poulenc.html (342 words)

	Amazon.ca: Poulenc, Francis: DVD
		Francis Poulenc's famous opera tells the story of a wealthy young heroine, Blanche de la Force, struggling with her decision to join a Carmelite convent.
		Poulencs' gem of an opera is an acquired taste, I think, but well worth the acquisition.
		For this 1999 production at the Opéra national du Rhin in Strasbourg, France, actress-turned-director Marthe Keller does a superlative job of conveying Poulenc's intentions.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000053GTD (948 words)

	Remembering Francis Poulenc
		Poulenc's nature encouraged his leanings toward a gentle irony and a subtle union of humor and gravity.
		Poulenc's penultimate opera, "Dialogues des Carmélites" (premiered in 1957), is doubtless the composer's greatest masterwork and most memorable achievement.
		During the war years, Poulenc had remained in occupied France where he showed his opposition to the Germans by composing songs on texts by forbidden authors such as Lorca.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/010199.htm (616 words)

	UWM Report
		"Poulenc, who would have been 100 years old in January of this year, was a beloved and eclectic master of melody, surrealism, cabaret, good humor, and heartbreaking religious fervor," says voice faculty member William Lavonis, festival coordinator.
		Among the highlights of the festival will be a children's concert featuring Chancellor Nancy Zimpher narrating Poulenc's "The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant," and a performance of "Le Travail du Peintre," Poulenc's song cycle on the painters Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Gris, Klee, Miro and Vitton, at the Milwaukee Art Museum.
		With lectures by Poulenc biographer Renaud Machart and museum curator Laurie Winters; catered reception; and special exhibit of 42 paintings by the featured artists.
	www.uwm.edu /News/report/old/march99/Poulenc.html (498 words)

	ARTIST
		Francis Poulenc(France, 1899-1963).The most famous of Les Six (Auric, Milhaud, Durey, Tailleferre, and Honegger were the others), and the one who found it easiest to stick to Jean Cocteau's ideals of simplicity.
		In his earlier musical life Poulenc was something of a dandy and an aesthete and his music rather reflects this.
		His operatic output includes the splendid Dialogue des Carmelites with its finale depicting 14 nuns going to the guillotine, and La Voix humaine, a setting for solo voice of Cocteau's monodrama about a woman holding a telephone conversation with a lover who is obviously tired of her.
	www.phoenixcd.com /search/BioInfo.cfm?Biography__Performer=POUL (187 words)

	Celebrating the Music of Francis Poulenc
		Poulenc may have spoken disparagingly at times about his writing for piano, but he was rightly proud of his song output, which covers his entire creative life.
		One of the guiding spirits of that project was a former colleague of Poulenc's, pianist Dalton Baldwin, who also presided over the concert at the Y. That ensured a stylish, authentic presence at the keyboard, and Baldwin clearly passed on his knowledge to the five singers and two pianists who collaborated with him.
		But the hero of this delicious concert was Poulenc himself, one of the few composers of the past century whose songs can sustain a full-length program and still have an audience clamoring for more at the end.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/1357 (588 words)

	Dialogues of the Carmelites - Francis Poulenc
		In this three-act, 12-scene through-composed opera, Poulenc follows this high-strung, aristocratic woman into a nunnery where she seeks refuge against fear that was viscerally transferred to her from her mother whose carriage was attacked by an angry mob.
		Another engaging aspect of Poulenc’s musical menu is his sweep from what sounds like 1940’s film music with it’s eloquent flourishes in the first scene (a nod to Bernanos’ screenplay) to the haunting liturgical and medieval sounds of the songs of the Carmelite Sisters.
		The Song of the Scaffold, Poulenc in collaboration with Emmet Lavery created an insightful psychological adaptation that ends at the guillotine during the waning days of the French Revolution& Reign of Terror and with the martyrdom of Blanche’s Carmelite community.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/Dialogue.htm (777 words)

	Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - Poulenc
		Poulenc behaved like a sophisticated eccentric (he once chatted up a stupefied Cannes bartender about an ingenious harmonic progression he managed to pull off that morning), and the eccentricity not surprisingly showed up in his music.
		In the Twenties, Poulenc was part of Les Six, an informal confederation of French composers who wanted to divorce both Impressionism and Germanicism from French music and create an amalgam from Igor Stravinsky, Eric Satie, and popular forms (Poulenc loved French vaudeville, especially Maurice Chevalier; Darius Milhaud, another member, liked American jazz and Brazilian dances).
		Poulenc, like Haydn and Schubert, is one of the few great composers not only content with, but modestly amazed at being human.
	www.classical.net /music/comp.lst/poulenc.html (764 words)

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