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 | | In 1920, in the journal Comoedia, the critic Henri Collet, recalling the Russian “Big Five” nationalist composers of the 19th century, nominated six français et Monsieur Satie as the new young lions of French music. |
 | | They were Georges Auric, Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc, Louis Durey, and Arthur Honegger, and their spiritual leaders were the writer-artist Jean Cocteau and the composer Erik Satie. |
 | | Their purpose would be to free French music from foreign, particularly German, influences, and to turn away from the whimsical vagaries of Impressionism. |
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