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    Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French: [fʁɑ̃sis ʒɑ̃ maʁsɛl pulɛ̃k]; 7 January 1899 – 30 January 1963) was a French composer and pianist. His compositions...
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    is a list of works written by the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899–1963). As a pianist, Poulenc composed many pieces for his own instrument in his...
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  • and third sons Émile, father of composer Francis Poulenc, and Camille Poulenc (1864–1942). Établissements Poulenc Frères had purchased May & Baker in 1922...
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    He had a close artistic association with Francis Poulenc, with whom he performed in France and abroad. Poulenc wrote 90 songs for him during their 25-year...
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    (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983). In 1917, when many...
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    for mixed voices with accompaniment for piano or orchestra, 1944) Francis Poulenc: Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise (men's chorus, 1948)...
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  • The Gloria by Francis Poulenc, FP 177, scored for soprano solo, large orchestra, and chorus, is a setting of the Gloria text from the mass ordinary. One...
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  • by Francis Poulenc dates from 1962 and is one of the last pieces he completed. It is dedicated to the memory of Arthur Honegger, who like Poulenc had...
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    de Monte Carlo is a monologue for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1961 based on a poem from Jean Cocteau’s Théâtre de poche. "Monte...
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    Dialogues of the Carmelites (category Operas by Francis Poulenc)
    linking orchestral interludes, with music and libretto by Francis Poulenc, completed in 1956. Poulenc wrote the libretto for his second opera after the work...
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    Les mamelles de Tirésias (category Operas by Francis Poulenc)
    Mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) is an opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc, in a prologue and two acts based on the eponymous play by Guillaume...
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    Andantino, to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1981 Les Animaux modèles, Francis Poulenc, 1942 Anna Karenina, to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 2005 Antique...
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  • ("The Breasts of Tiresias"), which was later adapted into an opera by Francis Poulenc.[citation needed] Roger Vitrac's The Mysteries of Love (1927) and Victor...
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  • The Sonate pour flûte et piano (Flute Sonata), FP 164, by Francis Poulenc, is a three-movement work for flute and piano, written in 1957. The sonata was...
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  • timpani and strings) in G minor, FP 93, is an organ concerto composed by Francis Poulenc between 1934 and 1938. It has become one of the most frequently performed...
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  • Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise (category Religious music by Francis Poulenc)
    Saint Francis of Assisi) is a sacred choral work by Francis Poulenc for a cappella men's chorus, composed in 1948. Written on a request by Poulenc's relative...
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  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina a motet by Giovanni Gabrieli a motet by Francis Poulenc Cummings, Robert. "Hodie Christus natus est". AllMusic. Retrieved 2017-12-24...
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    La voix humaine (category Operas by Francis Poulenc)
    forty-minute, one-act opera for soprano and orchestra composed by Francis Poulenc in 1958. The work is based on the play of the same name by Jean Cocteau...
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  • composed and performed by the Teddy Peiro Tango Quintet, and the music of Francis Poulenc, the Nocture #8. This theme is used while Ruth Wilcox walks at Howards...
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  • Mouvements perpétuels (category Solo piano compositions by Francis Poulenc)
    solo-piano piece by French composer Francis Poulenc. Mouvements perpétuels was premiered in Paris in December 1918, when Poulenc was aged 19 and a protégé of...
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    The Sinfonietta, FP 141, is a work for orchestra by Francis Poulenc. Composed in 1947 on a commission from the BBC, it was first performed in London on...
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    her dedication, as site and setting for inspiration. The composer Francis Poulenc wrote in 1936 Litanies à la Vierge Noire (Litanies to the Black Virgin)...
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    in Dunedin Francis Pollock (1876–1957), Canadian science fiction writer Francis Ponge (1899-1988), French essayist and poet Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)...
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    The Piano Concerto in C-sharp minor, FP 146, by French composer Francis Poulenc is the last of his five concertos. Written in 1949 on commission from...
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    This is a list of solo piano pieces by Francis Poulenc. Trois pastorales (1917), FP 5 Très vite Très lent Vite Trois pièces (1918, 1928), FP 48 Pastorale...
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    ballet (music by Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre) 1922: Antigone 1924: Roméo et Juliette 1925:...
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    ʃɑ̃pɛtʁ], Pastoral Concerto), FP 49, is a harpsichord concerto by Francis Poulenc, which also exists in a version for piano solo with very slight changes...
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    piano include Gabriel Fauré, Alexander Scriabin, Erik Satie (1919), Francis Poulenc (1929), as well as Peter Sculthorpe. In the movement entitled 'The...
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  • (FP 107) is a set of five mélodies for voice and piano composed by Francis Poulenc in 1940 on poems by Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918). Composed in...
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    Six (Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre) but also Jean Cocteau followed one another...
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