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Francis Poulenc, articles and interviews

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140946623X

9781306408905

9781409466239

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9781409466222

9781409466246

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Francis Poulenc, articles and interviews

[Book]

notes from the heart /

collected, introduced and annotated by Nicolas Southon ; translated by Roger Nichols

1 online resource (ix, 313 pages, [13] pages of plates) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index

"'He plays the piano well,' wrote the society hostess Mme de Saint-Marceaux in her diary on 18 March 1927. 'His compositions are not devoid of talent but he's not a genius, and I'm afraid he thinks he is.' Intelligent though the lady was, she got this one spectacularly wrong. Poulenc has in fact outpaced his colleagues in Les Six by many a mile, as singers and instrumentalists all over the world will attest, and while he would never have accepted the title of 'genius', preferring 'artisan', a genius is increasingly what he appears to have been. Part of the answer lay in always being his own man, and this independence of spirit shows through in his writings and interviews just as brightly as in his music, whether it's boasting that he'd be happy never to hear The Mastersingers ever again, pointing out that what critics condemn as the 'formlessness' of French music is one of its delights, voicing his outrage at attempts to 'finish' the Unfinished Symphony, writing 'in praise of banality' - or remembering the affair of Debussy's hat. And in every case, his intelligence, humour and generosity of spirit help explain why he was so widely and deeply loved. This volume comprises selected articles from Francis Poulenc: J'e⁺ѓcris ce qui me chante (Fayard, 2011) edited by Nicholas Southon. Many of these articles and interviews have not been available in English before and Roger Nichols's translation, capturing the very essence of Poulenc's lively writing style, makes more widely accessible this significant contribution to Poulenc scholarship"--

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Francis Poulenc, articles and interviews

9781306408905

Prose works.

Selections.

English

Composers-- France, Interviews

Music-- History and criticism

Poulenc, Francis,1899-1963

Nichols, Roger

Southon, Nicolas

Ohio Library and Information Network

20160304102853.0

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