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MODERN RECEPTION OF THE MUSICIAN FRANCIS POULENC
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What Francis Poulenc means for todays listener? Successful musician of the 20th century, having a huge success with the public, the French artist, who was brought up and created in a fascinating musical and cultural environment, and whose sources of inspiration, creative directions, genres, styles, concepts of creative thought impress both professionals and the general audience. If we access the official website dedicated to his personality, we are provided with an overall view on the huge documentation around Poulenc personality and phenomenon (biographical and compositional information, photographs, studies written by singers, musicologists, musical or literary critics, articles about events, thematic festivals, as well as an excellent systematization of audio-video materials). Moreover, his most famous biographer professor of musicology Hervé Lacombe in his monograph Francis Poulenc, published in 2013 by the famous publishing house Fayard, in his 1104 pages describes in detail both the man and the artist. I mentioned a few hypotheses of this research that will discuss several ideas that contribute to musicians modern reception. Starting from a systematic presentation of bibliography and providing a few significant facts, we believe that Francis Poulenc is the artist who foresaw the post-modern elements by means of several features in his creation: timbre diversity or sound intensity; contrast of means of expression, characters, thematic profiles; mix, association or overlapping of academic, folklore and pop music; aesthetic conception presented in the antinomical manner including the use of opuses or their metamorphoses, beginning with the use of ludic elements for tragic categories and ending with the inclusion of sacred works, etc. It is that neo-Romantic attitude that includes neo-Classical features of various shades due to composers French background, his openness towards the new dominated by the spirit of improvisation. These are just a few reasons that I believe prove that Francis Poulenc is still a rich source of inspiration for modern artists.
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Roy, Jean Francis Poulenc par Jean Roy, în: Francis Poulenc: l'homme et son oeuvre, vol 7, Musiciens de tous le temps, Seghers, 1964, University of California, 2009, apud. https://www.poulenc.fr/?Actualités, p. 1.
Lacombe, Hervé Francis Poulenc, Fayard, Paris, 2013, pp. 804-805.
Severtson, Kirk A. Poulenc’s Development as a Piano Composer: A Comparison of the Solo Piano Works and the Mélodies, A thesis submitted to the Division of Research and Advanced Studies of the University of Cincinnati (Committee Chair, Kenneth Griffiths), 2005, p. 28.
Severtson, Kirk A. Poulenc’s Development as a Piano Composer: A Comparison of the Solo Piano Works and the Mélodies, op. cit., p. 29.
Arbey, Dominique Francis Poulenc et la musique populaire, Thèse pour obtenir le grade de Docteur De L’Université Paris-Sorbonne (sous la direction Madame Le Professeur Danièle Pistone), 14 octobre 2011, p.5.
Arbey, Dominique Francis Poulenc et la musique populaire, op. cit., p. 250.
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Poulenc, Francis Entretiens avec Claude Rostand, R. Julliard, Paris, 1954, p.13, apud. Severtson, Kirk A. Poulenc’s Development as a Piano Composer: A Comparison of the Solo Piano Works and the Mélodies, A thesis submitted to the Division of Research and Advanced Studies of the University of Cincinnati (Committee Chair, Kenneth Griffiths), 2005, p. 20.
Arbey, Dominique Francis Poulenc et la musique populaire, Thèse pour obtenir le grade de Docteur De L’Université Paris-Sorbonne (sous la direction Madame Le Professeur Danièle Pistone), 14 octobre 2011, p. 9.
Poulenc, Francis Journal de mes mélodies (Diary of My Songs), bi-lingual edition, translated by Winifred Radford, London: Victor Gollancz, 1985, p. 13, apud. Severtson, Kirk A., Poulenc’s Development as a Piano Composer: A Comparison of the Solo Piano Works and the Mélodies, A thesis submitted to the Division of Research and Advanced Studies of the University of Cincinnati (Committee Chair, Kenneth Griffiths), 2005, p. 25.
Rogé, Pascal Francis Poulenc, New York, 9 mai 2008: https://www.poulenc.fr/?Actualités.
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