Francis Poulenc: Quick Facts


Facts

Born January 7, 1899 • Paris • France
Died January 30, 1963 (aged 64) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Concert champêtre” • “La Voix humaine” • “Les Mamelles de Tirésias” • “Les dialogues des Carmélites”
Movement / Style Les Six

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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
French composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Hungarian composer
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
American composer
Portrait of Benjamin Britten, British composer, wearing a suit and patterned tie, looking toward the camera with a neutral expression.
Benjamin Britten
British composer
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Sir Richard Rodney Bennett
British composer
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
French composer
Saint-Saëns, Camille
Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer
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Henri Sauguet
French composer
Lalo
Édouard Lalo
French composer
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Jean Françaix
French composer and musician
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Darius Milhaud
French composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Strozzi, Bernardo: portrait of Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer and musician
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer