Composer Portraits - Francis Poulenc

From the Publisher

The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the French composer and pianist Francis Poulenc . With notes by Jon Paxman. Writing in the European Piano Teachers Association Journal, Angela Fogg calls Composer Portraits "a well thought-out and well presented series of books offering fantastic repertoire for students in the later grades. I cannot recommend them enough!"

Contents

• Five Impromptus - II. Allegro vivace
• Française d’après Claude Gervaise
• L'histoire de Babar le petit éléphant (excerpts)
• Mouvements Perpétuels - II. Trés modéré
• Nocturnes No.7 (from 8 Nocturnes)
• Pièce brève sur le nom d'Albert Roussel
• Promenades - VIII. En Chemin De Fer
• Suite pour Piano - III. Vif
• Trois Novelettes - No.3 in E Minor - Andantino tranquillo
• Trois Pièces - I. Pastorale

Item Details

Category: Composers
Publisher: Wise Publications
Publisher's reference: AM1007864
Our Stock Code: 1353129
Media Type: Paperback