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Francis Poulenc: Oxford Studies of Composers

Autor Wilfrid Mellers
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 1995
Once considered as little more than the froth in the wake of the First World War, a witty boy-hedonist who, in the giddy Twenties, tweaked the noses of moribund establishmentarians, Poulenc has in fact proved unexpectedly durable - more so than any of his colleagues among Les Six, including those who developed more grandiose ambitions.Here is a survey of Poulenc's music, based on careful selection of his works, and written by an authoritative guide. Having placed Poulenc in the context of French life and society after the First World War and considered him in relation to his masters and mentors, especially Satie and Chabrier, Mellers turns to Poulenc's Diaghilev ballet, Les Biches, to important sequels to it, such as Concert champêtre and Aubade, and to works of transition, such as the Concerto for two pianos and orchestra. The next section discusses the `social' music of Poulenc's middle years - especially the music for piano (for Poulenc a domestic instrument), written during the Thirties, and the centrality of song in his work; some account is offered of his relationship with his main poets, Guillaume Apollinaire, Paul Eluard, and Louise de Vilmorin. Mellers mext considers the impact on Poulenc of the Second World War, especially as manifest in the great choral work Quatre Motets de Pénitence and the Organ Concerto. Separate chapters deal with the three main operatic pieces and Poulenc's relationship to Bernanos and Jean Cocteau; with the late devotional works, especially the Stabat Mater, the Gloriam and the Sept Répons des Ténèbres; and with the chamber works of the last few years. The chapters are illustrated througout with music examples.Adopting a broadly chronological approach, Mellers traces Poulenc's development as a composer from enfant terrible to a mature composer both for secular Society and for the liturgy of the Catholic Church; in so doing he points to the reasons for the durability and pertinacity of his appeal. Mellers further assesses Poulenc's place in the French tradition, and, in a Postlude, pays tribute to the warm regard with which Poulenc was held by so many of his fellow musicians.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198163381
ISBN-10: 019816338X
Pagini: 204
Ilustrații: music examples
Dimensiuni: 136 x 217 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Studies of Composers

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

this book does go to the heart of Poulenc and it deserves to be read

Notă biografică

He is author of many books including Percy Grainger OSC (OUP, 1992); Bach and the Dance of God (1980); Beethoven and the Voice of God (1684); Music in a New Found Land (1987); Man and his Music (1987); François Couperin (1987); Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion (1988)