Francis Poulenc: Articles and Interviews: Notes from the Heart

by Francis Poulenc, Roger Nichols, Nicolas Southon

'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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409466221
• ISBN13: 9781409466222
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"