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Francis Poulenc
Francis Poulenc , 1899-1963, French composer and pianist. He was one of Les Six , a group of French composers who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Erik Satie . The spontaneity and lyricism of Poulenc's style are best adapted to small forms—piano pieces such as Mouvements perpétu... Read more
Les Six
Les Six , a short-lived group of six young early 20th-century French musicians. They were united by their adverse reactions to the extravagant impressionism of French composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel and the overwrought romanticism of Germans such as Richard Wagner and Richar... Read more
nocturne
nocturne [Fr.,=night piece], in music, romantic instrumental piece, free in form and usually reflective or languid in character. John Field wrote the first nocturnes, influencing Chopin in the writing of his 19 nocturnes for piano. Others who have written nocturnes include Gabriel Fauré and ... Read more
Wanda Landowska
Wanda Landowska , 1879-1959, Polish-French harpsichordist and pianist, studied at the Warsaw Conservatory. She taught piano (1900-1912) at the Schola Cantorum, Paris, and harpsichord (1912-19) at the Berlin Hochschule. She established her École de Musique ancienne in Paris in 1925. In 1940, s... Read more
Erik Satie
Erik Satie , 1866-1925, French composer, studied at the Paris Conservatory; pupil of Vincent D'Indy and Albert Roussel at the Schola Cantorum. He early realized that the romantic Wagnerian style was incompatible with the expression of French sensibility, and he developed a restrained, abstract, and ... Read more
song
song relatively brief, simple vocal composition, usually a setting of a poetic text, often strophic, for accompanied solo voice . The song literature of Western music embodies two broad classifications— folk song and art song. Apart from the recently discovered cuneiform tablet contain... Read more
kinetic art
kinetic art term referring to sculptured works that include motion as a significant dimension. The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp , Naum Gabo , and Alexander Calder . Kinetic art is either nonmechanical, e.g., Calder's mobiles , or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, László Mo... Read more
Jean Gaspard Deburau
Jean Gaspard Deburau , 1796-1846, French pantomime performer, whose original name was Jan Kaspar Dvorjak, b. Bohemia. He became famous for his introduction of the pantomime character Pierrot at the Théâtre des Funambules. With delicate charm and pathos, he captured the essence of the ... Read more
Dada
Dada or Dadaism , international nihilistic movement among European artists and writers that lasted from 1916 to 1922. Born of the widespread disillusionment engendered by World War I, it originated in Zürich with the poetry of the Romanian Tristan Tzara . Dada attacked conventional standar... Read more
Jean-Louis Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault , 1910-94, French actor and director. A pupil of Charles Dullin, he joined the Comédie Française in 1940. After World War II he organized his own company at the Théâtre Marigny with his wife, actress Madeleine Renaud. Barrault's precise, imaginative phy... Read more

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Francis Poulenc
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Francis Poulenc Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) was in many ways...is characteristically French. Francis Poulenc was born in Paris to a family...mother was a fine pianist, and Francis began lessons at the age of...music. While still in his teens Poulenc met Erik Satie, who ... Read more
Six, Les
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Six, Les Collective name for six French composers who were organized as a group by Jean Cocteau in 1917. The members were Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger , Darius Milhaud , Francis Poulenc , and Germaine Tailleferre. Read more
Les Six
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...unadorned compositions of Erik Satie and by the works of Jean Cocteau , their literary prophet and spokesman, Les...Six consisted of Arthur Honegger , Darius Milhaud , Francis Poulenc , Georges Auric (1899-1983), Louis Durey (1888-1979... Read more
Ned Rorem
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...musical circles of Paris and was befriended by Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Darius Milhaud, and Jean Cocteau, among others. In 1957 he returned...French music, especially that of Ravel, Poulenc, and Satie. In his vocal writing Rorem showed... Read more
Alexander Tcherepnin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Paris with Bohuslav Martinů, Conrad Beck, and Marcel Mihalovici, a group of foreign composers close to the...Tailleferre, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, and Francis Poulenc). In addition, he used the percussive rhythm that Prokofiev... Read more
Stravinsky, Igor
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...deeply influenced Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956), Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963), and other dramatists of...influenced young composers including Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Kurt Weill, Sergei Prokofiev, and Dmitri Shostakovich... Read more

Dictionary entries related to " Francis (Jean Marcel) Poulenc"

Poulenc, Francis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music Poulenc, Francis ( b Paris, 1899; d Paris, 1963). Fr...Nouveaux Jeunes and called them Les Six , Poulenc being among them. They gave concerts...This milieu is faithfully reflected in Poulenc's settings of Cocteau's Cocardes . These...the ear of Stravinsky who recommended Poulenc to Diaghilev, ... Read more
Cocteau, Jean
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers COCTEAU, Jean Nationality: French. Born: Maisons-Lafit...October 1963. Films as Director: 1925 Jean Cocteau fait du cin é ma (+ sc...1970 La Voix humaine (Delouche, from Poulenc and Cocteau opera) Publications By...Cocteau on the Film , New York, 1954. Jean Cocteau par lui-m ê me , ... Read more
Milhaud, Darius
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Modernism with a Smile: Composers Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc," in Commentary , April 1998. On MILHAUD: film —...starting out in the silent era with a score to accompany Marcel L'Herbier's avant-garde melodrama L'Inhumaine . The... Read more

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Narcissus of modernism: a document-rich exhibition detailed the life of the mercurial Jean Cocteau, who helped shape visual, literary and dramatic arts in the 20th century.
Magazine article from: Art in America; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) was...anniversary of Cocteau's death, Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du...the show was renamed Jean Cocteau. Enfant Terrible...president of the Comite Jean Cocteau and a collector...of Georges Auric's and Francis Poulenc's film and ballet scores...Raymond Radiguet and ... Read more
Composer classification list.(List)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 4/1/2008; 700+ words ; ...Contemporary (Con) Accolay, Jean-Baptiste R Achron,Joseph...Albrechtsberger, Johann C Arban, Jean-Baptiste R Arutunian, Alexander...Brahms, Johannes R Breval, Jean-Baptiste C Bridge, Frank...Damare, Eugene R Damase, Jean-Michel Con Danzi, Franz C...Devienne, Francois C Dick, Marcel Con ... Read more
Composer classification list.
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 4/1/2005; 700+ words ; ...Johann C Aquado R Arban,Jean-Baptiste R Artunian...Johannes R Breval, Jean-Baptiste C Britten...Damare, Eugene R Damase, Jean-Michel Con Danzi, Franz...Devienne, Francois C Dick, Marcel Con Dohnanyi, Ernst...Gerald Con Francaix, Jean Con Franck, Cesar R...Con Jacob, Gordon Con Jean ... Read more
Composer classification list.(Illustration)
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 6/1/2004; 700+ words ; ...Johann C Aquado R Arban, Jean-Baptiste R Artunian...Johannes R Breval, Jean-Baptiste C Britten...Damare, Eugene R Damase, Jean-Michel Con Danzi, Franz...Devienne, Francois C Dick, Marcel Con Dohnanyi, Ernst...Gerald Con Francaix, Jean Con Franck, Cesar R...Con Jacob, Gordon Con Jean ... Read more
Composer Classification List.
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 8/1/2003; 700+ words ; ...Johann C Aquado R Arban, Jean-Baptiste R Artunian...Johannes R Breval, Jean-Baptiste C Britten...Damare, Eugene R Damase, Jean-Michel Con Danzi, Franz...Devienne, Francois C Dick, Marcel Con Dohnanyi, Ernst...Gerald Con Francaix, Jean Con Franck, Cesar R...Con Jacob, Gordon Con Jean ... Read more
Spain: Oviedo.(Opera review)
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 12/1/2008; ; 320 words ; ...Robert Carsen/Michael Levine production of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites opends the...s Jenufa in 2005, returning now with Poulenc's exquisite, sensitive and extremely...stage were beautifully choreo--graphed. Jean Kalman triumphed in the atmospheric lighting... Read more
Three free concerts set at Collier.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 5/8/2005; 252 words ; ...consists of saxophone quartets by Paul Jeanjean and Jean Rene Francaix, a string trio by Ludwig van Beethoven and a sonata for clarinet and piano by Francis Poulenc. It is the first in a series of three free concerts... Read more
Conference sessions.
Magazine article from: American Music Teacher; 2/1/2005; 634 words ; ...and the Spirituality Factor: The Unspoken Component Jean Stackhouse * Partnering Your Way Back to Performing...Frey Boytim * Piano Portrait--The Life and Music of Francis Poulenc John Kenneth Adams * Rediscovering Schumann's Album... Read more
Variety of ensembles to play at UO.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 11/27/2005; 700+ words ; ...perform Daniel Pinkham's `Christmas Cantata' as well as Francis Poulenc's `O Magnum Mysterium.' Chamber Choir will perform Jan...in two group numbers. Selections include an aria by Marcel Grandjany, `Prelude, Fugue and Variations' by Cesar... Read more
PERFORMANCE NOTES.(Entertainment)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 8/15/2004; 700+ words ; ...organist wins national leadership honor Organist Betty Jean Bartholomew of Eugene has received the Edward A. Hansen...Milagro Vargas of Eugene sang songs by Gabriel Faure, Francis Poulenc and Maurice Ravel in two performances with pianist Gilbert... Read more