The first movement of this man's flute sonata features the slightly oxymoronic tempo marking "Allegro malinconico," while his clarinet sonata opens with a similarly odd "Allegro tristamente.
The first movement of this man's flute sonata features the slightly oxymoronic tempo marking "Allegro malinconico," while his clarinet sonata opens with a similarly odd "Allegro tristamente." The influence of the cabaret is illustrated by such piano works as his Mouvements perpetuels. Following the death of his friend Pierre-Octave Ferroud in an auto accident he entered a more religious phase marked by such works as the (*) Litanies a la Vierge Noire. He first rose to prominence with the music for a ballet based on the paintings of Watteau, which depicted the sexual games of loose young women, and though he's not Manuel de Falla, he composed the Concert champetre for harpsichord for Wanda Landowska. For 10 points, name this member of Les Six who composed Les Biches, best known for the operas The Breast of Tiresias and Dialogue of the Carmelites.
The first movement of this man's flute sonata features the slightly oxymoronic tempo marking "Allegro malinconico," while his clarinet sonata opens with a similarly odd "Allegro tristamente.
Francis Poulenc