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musique vocale francaise
5 mélodies sur des poèmes de G. Apollinaire
For as long as there are poets there will be songs. If someone was to put on
my tomb: Here lies Francis Poulenc, musician to Apollinaire and Éluard: that
really would be my finest claim to fame, the composer declared in 1945. Right
from boyhood his attraction to poetry was practically equal to his love of
music. And in fact the young Poulenc took to song-writing quite naturally,
starting in 1919. Poulenc compiled a catalogue of 150 songs, a body of works
of consistently high quality, containing great diversity, that marks him out
as the last major exponent in this genre. These editions belong to Musique
vocale française, a series devoted to French vocal repertoire both in
original and transposed key designed for students and teachers as well as
professionals, they include original poems and English translations.