POULENC ORGAN CONCERTO CONCERT CHAMPETRE SUITE FRANCAISE CD NEW SEALED

Francis Poulenc(1899-1963)Organ Concerto in Gminor; Concert Champetre Suite Francais. Claude Gervaise Francis Pouleuc was born in Paris on 7th January 1899, the son of EmilePonlenc, a director of the pharmaceutical firm, and his wife,Jenny Royer. His musical tastes and gifts were drawn largely from his mother,an amateur pianist, who gave him his first piano lessons, when he was five,leading to study, three years later, with Mlle Boutet de Monvel, a niece ofCesar Franck. It was at the same period that he heard Debussy's Dansessacrees et profanes, a work that awoke in him an interest in that composer and a desire to explore the harmonic possibilities he suggested. By 1914, he had discovered the music of Schubert and of Stravinsky and now embarked on lessons with the pianist Ricardo Vines, his teacher, for the next three years. ThroughVines, he met Erik Satie and Georges Auric, the first a strong influence on the early form of his composition and the second, his near contemporary,g