Composer Portraits: Francis Poulenc

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!"

Inhoud: Five Impromptus - II. Allegro vivace • Française d'après Claude Gervaise • L'histoire de Babar le petit éléphant (excerpts) • Mouvements Perpétuels - II. Très 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