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. 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