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The name of Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) commonly brings to mind the intriguing group of French composers referred to in the 1920s as "iconoclasts," and known as Les Six (with Poulenc, Auric, Durey, Milhaud, and Honegger). To envision her solely in this most brief of lights, however, does not bring a sense of justice to her legacy, for Tailleferre leaves behind a large and diverse body of musical work that spans 70 years, writing for more than a half-century after the precarious summit of Les Six. Although she was well acquainted with many influential 20th-century artists, from Picasso to Stravinsky to Charlie Chaplin, she remains a curiously mysterious, if not absent, figure in biographical studies and in studies of the times of which she was an integral part. ... Read more

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Chapters: Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Henri Collet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, 17 May 1866 Paris, 1 July 1925) was a French composer and pianist. Starting with his first composition in 1884, he signed his name as Erik Satie. Satie was introduced as a "gymnopedist" in 1887, shortly before writing his most famous compositions, the Gymnopédies. Later, he also referred to himself as a "phonometrician" (meaning "someone who measures sounds") preferring this designation to that of "musician", after having been called "a clumsy but subtle technician" in a book on contemporary French composers published in 1911. In addition to his body of music, Satie also left a remarkable set of writings, having contributed work for a range of publications, from the dadaist 391 to the American top culture chronicle Vanity Fair. Although in later life he prided himself on always publishing his work under his own name, in the late nineteenth century he appears to have used pseudonyms such as Virginie Lebeau and François de Paule in some of his published writings. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde. His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd. Erik Satie's youth was spent alternating between living in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, and Paris. When he was four years old, his family moved to Paris, his father (Alfred), having been offered a translator's job in the capital. After his mother (born Jane Leslie Anton, who was born in London to Scottish parents) died in 1872, he was sent, together with his younger brother Conrad, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9956 ... Read more

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Chapters: Hildegard of Bingen, Clara Schumann, Annette Von Droste-Hülshoff, Germaine Tailleferre, Pauline Viardot, Sofia Gubaidulina, Amélie-Julie Candeille, Sylvie Bodorová, Katia Tiutiunnik, Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova, Matilde Salvador I Segarra, Galina Ustvolskaya, Hanna Kulenty, Jeanne Demessieux, Louise Farrenc, Pauline Oliveros, Gloria Coates, Cécile Chaminade, Cynthia Cozette Lee, Elisabeth Lutyens, Nadia Boulanger, Joan Tower, Ivan Mane Jarnović, Hedwige Chrétien, Ethel Smyth, Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, Blanche Robinson, Maria Malibran, Amy Beach, Augusta Read Thomas, Peggy Stuart Coolidge, Fanny Mendelssohn, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, Barbara Strozzi, Jennifer Higdon, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Maria Theresia Ahlefeldt, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Lera Auerbach, Kaija Saariaho, Claude Arrieu, Ursula Mamlok, Francesca Lebrun, Lili Boulanger, Cecilia Clare Bocard, Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Princess Amalie of Saxony, Dorothée Hahne, Thea Musgrave, Dora Pejačević, Alex Shapiro, Dina Appeldoorn, Sophie Menter, Imogen Holst, Kay Gardner, Erica Muhl, Rebecca Saunders, Josephine Lang, Karen P. Thomas, Isabella Colbran, Augusta Holmès, Clémence de Grandval, Louise Bertin, Olga Neuwirth, Undine Smith Moore, Joan La Barbara, Marion Bauer, Beth Wiseman, Guy D'hardelot, Antonia Bembo, Sulpitia Cesis, Sasha Siem, Agata Della Pietà, Zara Levina, Michielina Della Pietà, Santa Della Pietà, Emilie Zumsteeg, Elinor Remick Warren, Mélanie Bonis, Joan Trimble, Ann Callaway, Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault, Marie Bigot, Shulamit Doniach. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 412. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Blessed Hildegard of Bingen (German: ; Latin: ; 1098 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=13684 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Germaine Tailleferre, Rolande Falcinelli, Elisabeth Lutyens, Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Maïda, Marie-Hélène Fournier, Hildegarde de Bingen, Sappho, Lili Boulanger, Pascale Jakubowski, Jeanne Demessieux, Marzena Komsta, Cécile Chaminade, Galina Oustvolskaïa, Maria Theresa Von Paradis, Hedwige Chrétien, Marie Jaëll, Elizabeth Maconchy, Sophie Gail, Kaija Saariaho, Sophie-Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté, Ielena Firsova, Alma Mahler, Louise Farrenc, Sophie Lacaze, Gloria Coates, Clara Schumann, Compositrice, Amy Beach, Nadia Boulanger, Marcelle Deschênes, Pauline Viardot, Suzanne Giraud, Simone Plé-Caussade, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Ethel Smyth, Béatrice Thiriet, Anne-Amélie de Brunswick, Léopoldine Blahetka, Claude Arrieu, Sofia Goubaïdoulina, Majoie Hajary, Pascale Criton, Kassia, Adrienne Clostre, Barbara Strozzi, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Elsa Barraine, Vítězslava Kaprálová, Francesca Caccini, Mélanie Bonis, Jean Coulthard, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Jeanne Barbey, Maddalena Laura Sirmen, Augusta Holmès, Valborg Aulin, Unsuk Chin, Consuelo Velázquez, Yvonne Desportes, Maddalena Casulana, Erzsébet Szőnyi, Francine Benoît, Wilhelmine de Bayreuth, Michèle Bokanowski, Isabella Leonarda, Jeanne Leleu, Olga Neuwirth, Ada Gentile, Jacqueline Fontyn, Anna Bon Di Venezia, Édith Lejet, Alla Pavlova, Rebecca Clarke, Rita Kassabian, Paule Maurice, Annette Vande Gorne, Antonia Bembo, Betsy Jolas, Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux, Tatiana Nikolaïeva, Louise Héritte-Viardot, Ida Presti, Graciane Finzi, Anne Boyd, Édith Canat de Chizy, Hélène de Montgeroult, Maria Agata Szymanowska, Marguerite Béclard D'harcourt, Elfrida Andrée, Lucile Grétry, Luise Adolpha le Beau, Elisabetta de Gambarini, Xu Yi, Emilie Mayer, Nathalie Mira...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: List of Compositions by Germaine Tailleferre, Pancarte Pour une Porte D'entrée, Toccata Pour Deux Pianos, Sonate Champêtre, Intermezzo Pour Deux Pianos, Deux Poèmes de Lord Byron, Sonate Pour Deux Pianos, L'adieu Du Cavalier. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: This is a list of compositions by Germaine Tailleferre (1892 - 1983). It includes serious concert works, film and television score and popular works. It does not include arrangements, harmonisations or transcriptions. In the interests of clarity, some works which are essentially the same works with different titles (the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra and the Concerto de la Fidelité, for example) have been omitted. There is a great deal of discussion amongst musicologists as to the authenticity of the various catalogs already published in the handful of biographical works devoted to Germaine Tailleferre, one of which even includes a category of "titles which were not given by the composer". Many works included in those catalogs are missing from this list because they cannot be verified by either published scores or primary manuscript sources. In order to establish this catalog, we used three types of sources: 1. Works which are easily verifiable through either published scores, recordings, copies of film and television presentations kept in national archives and works for which concert programmes have been kept at libraries or archives. 2. The records kept at the SACEM (the French performing rights association), using both the old paper catalog and the new computerized catalog. 3. Robert Orledge's catalog of manuscript sources in Germaine Tailleferre (1892-1983) : A Centenary Appraisal" Muziek ... Read more

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Chapters: Anton Diabelli, Arnold Schoenberg, Germaine Tailleferre, Bradley Joseph, Josef Tal, Jim Brickman, Yanni, Martin Scherber, John Tesh, Arturo Rodas, Mary Howe, Brian Kelly, Fariborz Lachini, Julius Reubke, Stephen Devassy, Alberto Hemsi, Moissaye Boguslawski, Vladimir Shainsky, Fiona Joy Hawkins, Yoshihisa Taira, Kevin Kern, Alexandre Rey Colaço, Michael Jones, Chris Geith, James Moody, Raed George, Edward Ballantine, Kent Marcum, Dave Sterling. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 153. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Bradley Joseph (born 1965) is an American composer, arranger, and producer of contemporary instrumental music. His compositions include works for orchestra, quartet, and solo piano, while his musical style ranges from "quietly pensive mood music to a rich orchestration of classical depth and breadth". Active since 1983, Joseph has performed in front of more than a half million people around the world. He played various instruments in rock bands throughout the Midwest until 1989 when Greek composer Yanni hired him for his core band after hearing a tape of his original compositions. He was a featured concert keyboardist with Yanni through six major tours, most recently in 2003 for the 60-city Ethnicity tour. He appears in the multi-platinum album and concert film, Yanni Live at the Acropolis. Joseph also spent four years as musical director and lead keyboardist for Sheena Easton, including a 1995 performance on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. His solo career began when he independently released Hear the Masses, featuring many of his Yanni bandmates. This debut was followed by Rapture, an instrumental album recorded with a 50-piece orchestra in which Joseph wrote and conducted all of the scores. It was released on the Narada label and reached New Age Voice (NAV)'s ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6740971 ... Read more

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Title: Germaine Tailleferre: A Bio-Bibliography.
Author: Carl B. Schmidt
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc.
Volume: v53Issue: n2Page: p474(3)

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Georges Auric, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Germaine Tailleferre, Michel de La Barre, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Joseph Bodin de Boismortier, Adolphe Adam, André Campra, Reynaldo Hahn, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, Albert Roussel, Édouard Lalo, André Grétry, Ferdinand Hérold, Paul Ladmirault, Paul Dukas, Eugène Bozza, Jean Françaix, Henry Desmarest, Léo Delibes, Philippe Gaubert, Gustave Dugazon, André Messager, André Cardinal Destouches, Michel Lambert, Pierre de Bréville, Pierre Montan Berton, François Benoist, Jean-Michel Damase, Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Pascal Collasse, François Colin de Blamont, Pierre Guédron, Jacques Aubert, Georges Dandelot, Ferdinand Barlow, Pierre-Octave Ferroud, Albert Cahen, Antoine Boësset, François de Chancy, Adolphe Benoît Blaise, Chevalier D'herbain, Jean-Baptiste Lully Fils, Louis Lully, Jean-Louis Lully, Léon Gastinel. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Joseph Maurice Ravel (Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 7 mars 1875 - Paris, 28 décembre 1937) était un compositeur français de l'époque moderne. Avec son aîné Claude Debussy, Ravel fut une des figures les plus influentes de la musique française de son époque et, au début du siècle, le principal représentant du courant impressionniste. Reconnu comme un maître de l'orchestration et un artisan perfectionniste, cet homme à la personnalité complexe ne s'est jamais départi d'une sensibilité et d'une expressivité qui, selon Le Robert, lui firent évoquer dans son œuvre à la fois « les jeux les plus subtils de l'intelligence » et « les épanchements les plus secrets du cœur ». L'œuvre de Ravel est le fruit d'un héritage complexe s'étendant de Couperin et Rameau jusq...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Philip Glass, Goran Bregović, Max Steiner, Germaine Tailleferre, Trevor Jones, Arvo Pärt, Michel Legrand, Virgil Thomson, Gabriel Yared, Scott Bradley, List of Film Score Composers, Yuvan Shankar Raja, Inon Zur, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, John Weinzweig, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Yuri Khanon, M. S. Viswanathan, Johnny Douglas, Benjamin Speed, Nele Karajlić, William Susman, Aram Khachaturian, Joseph Koo, James Dooley, Alexander Shchetynsky, Christopher Tin, Jatin Lalit, Władysław Szpilman, Mieczysław Weinberg, Alexandre Tansman, Raveendran, John T. La Barbera, Edwin Wendler, Vladislav Shoot, Pedro Camacho, Nicolas Economou, Michel Colombier, Shuki Levy, Ciarán Farrell, Tan Dun, Marcel Delannoy, Harry Gregson-Williams, Harris Jayaraj, Jassie Gift, Boris Tishchenko, Eumir Deodato, Laura Karpman, Masakazu Yoshizawa, Michael Pärt Musik, Yiruma, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, Kamil Rustam, K. V. Mahadevan, Emil Viklický, Jeremy Mayall, Ludovico Einaudi, Nicholas Lens, G. Devarajan, Raúl Ruiz, Graeme Revell, John Van Tongeren, Jeff Toyne, Tyler Bates, Wayne Gerard Trotman, Geoff Zanelli, Tomandandy, Hal Mooney, Chas Jankel, Steve Jablonsky, Mano Murthy, Nico Dostal, Ernö Rapée, Nima Fakhrara, Thorsten Laewe, Ceiri Torjussen, Graham Fitkin, Ouseppachan, Vic Mizzy, Richard Kearns, Elie Siegmeister, Jojo Draven, Blaž Arnič, Saeed Shahram, Carl Johnson, Robert Farnon, X-Ray Dog, Pascal Comelade, Dan Wool, Milt Franklyn, Fahir Atakoğlu, Éric Demarsan, Saša Lošić, Alfi Kabiljo, Carol Parks, Helene Muddiman, Martin Smolka, V. Selvaganesh, Ned Bouhalassa, Jon Ehrlich, Simon Ravn, Joseph Kosma, Sandor Kalloś, Mátyás Seiber, Martial Solal, Pat Irwin, Dick Marx, Colin Towns, Christopher Lennertz, Ludwig Schmidseder, Walter Jurmann, Patrick Cassidy, W. Franke Harling, Frank Skinner, Robin Ghosh, Luis Bacalov, Tony Aubin, Karen Khachaturian, S. A. Rajkumar, Gene de Paul, Winston Sharples, Carlos Franzetti, D. Imman, Gary Stockd...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=24540 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Luc Besson, Serge Gainsbourg, Darius Milhaud, André Hossein, Georges Auric, Germaine Tailleferre, René-Louis Baron, Michel Legrand, Maurice Jarre, Éric Serra, Claude Bolling, Georges Delerue, Bruno Coulais, Vladimir Cosma, René Sylviano, Pierre Bachelet, Alain Goraguer, Philippe Sarde, Francis Lai, Paul Mauriat, Marco Prince, Coline Serreau, Alexandre Desplat, Michel Portal, Pascal Comelade, Cyril Morin, Henri Verdun, Marcel Lattès, Georges Van Parys, Raymond Lefèvre, Jérôme Leroy, Michel Colombier, Jean Wiener, Martial Solal, Para One, Dominique Dalcan, Jean-Philippe Goude, Nicolas Jorelle, Pierre Barouh, Antoine Duhamel, Roger Désormière, Marcel Delannoy, Yarol Poupaud, Marguerite Monnot, Jean Françaix, François de Roubaix, Joseph Kosma, Julien Chirol, Jacques Bondon, André Popp, David Fenech, Michel Magne, Jean-Jacques Grunenwald, Fabrice Aboulker, Jean-Michel Bernard, Didier Vasseur, Alain Clavier, Reinhardt Wagner, Béatrice Thiriet, Yves Baudrier, Philippe Haïm, Serge Perathoner, René Aubry, Carlos D'alessio, Laurent Petitgirard, Marcel Landowski, Éric Demarsan, Pierre Billon, Maurice le Roux, Christophe Héral, Philippe Chany, Baudime Jam, Alex Beaupain, Pierre Papadiamandis, Patrice Moullet, Loïc Dury, Tony Aubin, Tiarko Richepin, Pierre Jansen, Thierry Malet, Alain Jomy, Adolphe Borchard, Pierre-Yves Lenik, Marc Lanjean, Maurice Jaubert, Frédéric Botton, Gérard Calvi, Nicolas Errèra, Frédéric Devanlay, François Rauber, Franck Marchal, Amaury Du Closel, Vincent Scotto, Olivier Florio, Philippe Rombi, Grégoire Hetzel, Bertrand Burgalat, Laurent Levesque, Jean-Michel Defaye, Philippe Eidel, Krishna Levy, Evgueni Galperine, Louis Beydts, Georges Garvarentz, Gréco Casadesus, Henri Betti, Casimir Oberfeld, Christophe M...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Claudette Colbert, Alain Lipietz, Germaine Tailleferre, Eugène Delacroix, Jean Giraud, Jean-Claude Mézières, Jean-Pierre Jarier, Louis Massignon, Pierre Cochereau, Robert Doisneau, Didier Pironi, Vanessa Paradis, Djamel Belmadi, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Rohff, Hassan Yebda, Alexandra David-Néel, John, Duke of Berry, Alain Poher, Michèle Alliot-Marie, Mickaël Tavares, Emmanuel Curtil, Jimmy Kébé, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Pierre Contant D'ivry, Jimmy Briand, Martine Carol, Raymond Radiguet, Pierre Christin, Yann Lachuer, Jacques Faty, Manu Katché, Suzanne Flon, Lucien Laurent, Franck Lagorce, Tariq Abdul-Wahad, Dany Verissimo, François Cavanna, Doudou Masta, Frantz Granvorka, Annabella, Lydia Gouardo, Dominique Laffin, Pierre Vassiliu, Stéphane Bruey, David Fleurival, Bruno Cremer, Christian Vander, Alaixys Romao, Jérémy de Magalhaes, Marcel Langiller, Julien Havet, Yvan Blot, Charles Berling, Benjamin Nicaise, Pierre Gandon, Frédéric Diefenthal, Richard Massolin, Georges Wilson, Claudine Beccarie, Ritchie Makuma Mpasa, Yves Ternon, Jean-Michel Defaye, Louis Finot, François Cornut-Gentille. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 267. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Claudette Colbert (pronounced ; September 13, 1903 July 30, 1996) was a French-born American stage and film actress. Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. She established a successful film career with Paramount Pictures and later, as a freelance performer, became one of the highest paid entertainers in American cinema. Colbert was recognized as one of the leading female exponents of screwball comedy; she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her comedic performance in It Happened One Nig...http://booksllc.net/?id=61350 ... Read more

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Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (French pronunciation: ; January 7, 1899 - January 30, 1963) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six. He composed music in genres including art song, solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music. Critic Claude Rostand, in a July 1950 Paris-Presse article, described Poulenc as "half monk, half delinquent" ("le moine et le voyou"), a tag that was to be attached to his name for the rest of his career. Poulenc was born in Paris in 1899. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play and music formed a part of family life. He was a capable pianist and the keyboard dominated his early compositions. He borrowed from his own compositions as well as those of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Camille Saint-Saëns. Later in his life, the loss of close friends, coupled with a pilgrimage to the Black Madonna of Rocamadour, led him to rediscover the Roman Catholic faith and resulted in compositions of a more sombre, austere tone. Poulenc was a member of Les Six, a loose-knit group of young French and Swiss composers (it also included Milhaud, Auric, Durey, Honegger and Tailleferre) who had links with Erik Satie, Jean Hugo and Jean Cocteau. He embraced the Dada movement's techniques, creating melodies that would have challenged what was considered appropriate for Parisian music halls. He was identified with this group before he undertook his first formal musical training, with Charles Koechlin in 1921. Poulenc was a featured pianist in recordings, including some of his own songs (with Pierre Bernac, recorded in 1947; and Rose Dercourt) and the Concerto for Two Pianos (recorded in May 1957). He supervised the 1961 world premiere recording of his Gloria, which was conducted by Georges Prêtre. His recordings were released by RCA Victor and EMI. Poulenc's Perpetual Motion No. 1 (1918) is used in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope...http://booksllc.net/?l=de ... Read more