[Fuusm-l] Fwd: Trois Mouvements Perpetuels - Francis Poulenc

[Randall Kidder]

     Francis Poulenc: January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963.
     Poulenc was conscripted into the Army of France and served from
January 1918 to January 1921. His duties allowed him time for composition.
He was a student and protege of Erik Satie, and wrote these on a piano in a
local French elementary school near where he was stationed. These three
short pieces premiered in Paris in December, 1918.
     The suite was described by the pianist Alfred Cortot as being "
reflections of the ironical outlook of Satie adapted to the sensitive
standards of the current intellectual circles."
     "Each of the three pieces ends inconclusively, leaving the music
unresolved, to linger in our minds."  - Marina and Victor Ledin.
     The pianist and author Roger Nichols noted that the little flourishes
with which each piece ends 'are the epitome of urban irony."
     Poulenc compared them to having a brisk stroll by the Seine.

[I'm sending them separately since there was apparently some kind of French
underground resistance to having them consolidated in one simple email, so
that mission was left unsuccessfully completed.]


Randall Kidder

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I. Assez modere

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