by lopezv | Oct 4, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Darius Milhaud was a very intriguing composer of his time in Paris during the 1920s. He would later become part of Les Six including famous composers of his era in France such as Poulenc and Honegger. Milhaud utilizes sonorous textures to display his complex music...
by Emma Haupt | Sep 29, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Polish national, Wanda Landowska, brought the harpsichord revival to France and all of Europe in the early twentieth century. After beginning piano at age four she received a more formal music education beginning at the Warsaw Conservatory with Jan Kleczyńsky and...
by hahnl | Sep 29, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
The source that helped me to understand the contributions to “French” music that Caryathis made was found in Legacies of Twentieth Century Dance. Caryathis became a dancer against the wishes of her family and ran away from them to Monmartre and began her dance career....
by Andrew Horton | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Who better to explain George Antheil than the man himself? In his autobiography, Bad Boy of Music1, Antheil relates his life as a performer and composer, dissected into his various places of residence. Although he was born in the United States, he begins his story in...
by surom | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
So far in my research the best resources I have found to discern how influential Georges Auric was to French music has been through the words of his nearly lifelong friend, Francis Poulenc. Auric and Poulenc met in 1916. Older than Auric by only a month,...
by harikian | Sep 28, 2015 | Music in Paris in the 1920s (2015)
Marcelle Meyer (1897-1958) is a French pianist who studied at the Paris Conservatoire. She is known primarily for her association with Les Six and had quite a successful career performing throughout Europe.1 I’ll admit it – I signed up for Marcelle Meyer...
