Poulenc : a biography / Roger Nichols.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nichols, Roger, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.

Poulenc, Francis.

Composers--France--Biography.

Composers.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

372 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2020.

Summary:

Francis Poulenc is a key figure in twentieth-century classical music, as well as an unorthodox and striking individual. Roger Nichols draws upon Poulenc's music and other primary sources to write an authoritative life of this great artist. Although associated with five other French composers in what came to be called "Les Six", Poulenc was very much sui generis in personality and in his music, where he excelled over a wide repertoire-opera, songs, ballet scores, chamber works, piano pieces, sacred and secular choral works, orchestral works and concertos. This book fully covers this wide range, while also describing the vicissitudes of Poulenc's life and the many important relationships he had with major figures such as Satie, Ravel, Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Cocteau and others.

Contents:

I Overture and Beginners: 1899-1918 p. 1

II 'Now We Are Six': 1919-1924 p. 29

III Dreaming of Maturity: 1924-1928 p. 62

IV Depression and Recovery: 1929-1934 p. 85

V Surrealism and Faith: 1934-1939 p. 112

VI The Years of Darkness: 1939-1944 p. 142

VII 'Liberty, I Write Your Name': 1944-1952 p. 172

VIII Mad about Nuns: 1952-1956 p. 215

IX Joy, Suffering and Farewell: 1957-1963 p. 249.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-358) and index.

ISBN:

9780300226508

0300226500

OCLC:

1151896921