POULENC FRANCISLivre Rare Book
Op. 49. Concert Champêtre Piano reduction
195333827Paris: Salabert PN R.L. 11708 & Cie. 1953. Folio. Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers with titling within ruled borders to upper publisher's catalogue "Oeuvres de Francis Poulenc" to verso of lower. 1f. recto title verso blank 68 pp.<br/><br/>Wrappers slightly worn; corners slightly creased; small date stamp to upper; very small stain to lower. Slightly browned. Second reissue of the edition published by Rouart Lerolle & Cie. ©1929. Schmidt FP49 p. 153.<br/><br/>"Poulenc never questioned the supremacy of the tonal-modal system. Chromaticism in his music is never more than passing even if he used the diminished 7th more than any leading composer since Verdi. Texturally rhythmically harmonically he was not particularly inventive. For him the most important element of all was melody and he found his way to a vast treasury of undiscovered tunes within an area that had according to the most up-to-date musical maps been surveyed worked and exhausted. His definitive statement came perhaps in a letter of 1942: 'I know perfectly well that I'm not one of those composers who have made harmonic innovations like Igor Stravinsky Ravel or Debussy but I think there's room for new music which doesn't mind using other people's chords. Wasn't that the case with Mozart-Schubert'. And if Poulenc was not quite a Schubert he is among the 20th century's most eligible candidates for the succession." Roger Nichols in Grove Music Online. Salabert [PN R.L. 11708 & Cie.] unknown books
