Directory of Les Six Resources

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Les Six were a group of French composers. They had met at the Paris Conservatoire and became close friends. They were: Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Darius Milhaud (1892-1974), Arthur Honegger (1892-1955), Georges Auric (1899-1983), Germaine Tailleferre(1892-1983) and Louis Durey (1888-1979). They originally gave concerts together under the name "Les Nouveaux Jeunes" (The New Young People), but later changed their name to Les Six.

Subcategories

• Auric, Georges
• Durey, Louis
• Honegger, Arthur
• Milhaud, Darius
• Poulenc, Francis
• Tailleferre, Germaine

Resources in This Category

• Music by Les Six

  http://www.classical.net/music/recs/reviews/m/mpl23788a.php
  Classical Net review.

• Springtime in Paris: Les Six

  http://music.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/0003_satie/lessix.shtml
  Information about the group and all of its members.

• XXth Century: "Les Six", Satie, and Cocteau

  http://www.scena.org/lsm/sm6-1/coq-en.html
  Article by Stéphane Villemin.

 

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