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!"

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
• Trois Pièces - I. Pastorale