Composer Portraits: Francis Poulenc

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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!"

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