POULENC, Francis (1899-1963). Autograph musical quotation inscribed and signed ("Francis Poulenc"), n.p., 1956. 1 page, oblong 8vo. An attractive example of Poulenc's musical hand, boldly inscribed " Les Biches (Rondeau) Pour Miss O'Brien" in ink and giving expression markings "Très gai" and dynamics "mf." Poulenc quotes three bars from the Rondeau of his well-known ballet Les Biches (1924), commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes and first performed in Monte Carlo in 1924 to great popular and critical acclaim. During the 1920s, Poulenc was a member of a group of French composers known as Les Six , who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Eric Satie and included Milhaud, Honegger, Georges Auric, Louis Durey and Germaine Tailleferre. They rejected the romantic Wagnerian style currently dominating the late nineteenth-century European aesthetic and which they believed was fundamentally incompatible with the expression of French sensibility, and were also united in the reaction against Impressionism.
POULENC, Francis (1899-1963). Autograph musical quotation inscribed and signed ("Francis Poulenc"), n.p., 1956. 1 page, oblong 8vo. An attractive example of Poulenc's musical hand, boldly inscribed " Les Biches (Rondeau) Pour Miss O'Brien" in ink and giving expression markings "Très gai" and dynamics "mf." Poulenc quotes three bars from the Rondeau of his well-known ballet Les Biches (1924), commissioned by Diaghilev for the Ballets Russes and first performed in Monte Carlo in 1924 to great popular and critical acclaim. During the 1920s, Poulenc was a member of a group of French composers known as Les Six , who subscribed to the aesthetic ideals of Eric Satie and included Milhaud, Honegger, Georges Auric, Louis Durey and Germaine Tailleferre. They rejected the romantic Wagnerian style currently dominating the late nineteenth-century European aesthetic and which they believed was fundamentally incompatible with the expression of French sensibility, and were also united in the reaction against Impressionism.
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