Francis Poulenc

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According to Claude Rostand, Poulenc was "A lover of life, mischievous, 'bon enfant,' tender and impertinent, melancholy and serenely mystical, half monk and half delinquent."

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List of Organ Works

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Op. 93	Concerto in G minor for organ, string orchestra and timpani	1938
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Background and General Perspectives on Performing These Organ Works

According to Roger Nichols writing for Oxford Music Online, "[Poulenc's} Organ Concerto is altogether deeper in emotional character while remaining stylistically ambivalent. Recognizably a product of ‘Janus-Poulenc’, it leads the solo instrument from Bach's G minor Fantasia to the fairground and back again. Poulenc placed it ‘on the outskirts’ of his religious music."

According to Wikipedia, "Poulenc's music is fundamentally tonal, although he made use of harmonic innovations such as pandiatonicism and chromatically altered chords. In some of his last works he used 12-tone rows, but Poulenc never questioned the validity of traditional tonic-dominant harmony. Lyrical melody pervades his music..."

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