"Trois Mouvements Perpetuels," by Francis Poulenc. Poulenc was a member of les Six"," group of French composers influenced by Eric Satie, who followed Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel in the French musical scene. Their music was lighter, less serious, sometimes irreverent, although also having their more serious, even religious side. After the death by decapitation of a musician friend and a visit to a monastery, Poulenc felt a religious re-awakeinig and wrote much religious music, such as "Les Dialogues des Carmelites," an opera in three acts based on a play by George Bernano, Nobel prize winner for literature, about the brutal execution at the guillotine of 16 Carmelite nuns during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their Catholic (Chirstian) faith. Poulenc was also an accomplished pianist. Gabe Meruelo.
Poulenc could reconcile opposing tendencies in his music, as well as in his own personality; for example he was a gay composer and yet intensely religious, at a time when the Catholic Church condemned homosexuality in a more stern manner than it does today.
"Trois Mouvements Perpetuels," by Francis Poulenc. Poulenc was a member of les Six"," group of French composers influenced by Eric Satie, who followed Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel in the French musical scene. Their music was lighter, less serious, sometimes irreverent, although also having their more serious, even religious side. After the death by decapitation of a musician friend and a visit to a monastery, Poulenc felt a religious re-awakeinig and wrote much religious music, such as "Les Dialogues des Carmelites," an opera in three acts based on a play by George Bernano, Nobel prize winner for literature, about the brutal execution at the guillotine of 16 Carmelite nuns during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their Catholic (Chirstian) faith. Poulenc was also an accomplished pianist. Gabe Meruelo.
ReplyDeleteI neglected to tell that his friend died by decapitation in an automobile accident.
ReplyDeletePoulenc could reconcile opposing tendencies in his music, as well as in his own personality; for example he was a gay composer and yet intensely religious, at a time when the Catholic Church condemned homosexuality in a more stern manner than it does today.
ReplyDeletePerformed by Pascal Roge.
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