Fiançailles pour rire
- voice
- piano
Fiançailles pour rire ("Betrothal for Laughs"), FP 101, is a song cycle of six mélodies for voice and piano by Francis Poulenc on poems from the collection of the same name by Louise de Vilmorin. Composed in 1939, it was premiered on 21 March 1942 at Salle Gaveau by the soprano Geneviève Touraine and the composer as the pianist.[citation needed]
Titles
- La Dame d'André
- Dans l'herbe
- Il vole
- Mon cadavre est doux comme un gant
- Violon
- Fleurs
Dedicatees
The song "Fleurs" was dedicated to Solange d'Ayen, the Duchess of Ayen and fashion editor of French Vogue magazine.[1][2]
References
- ^ "[Fleurs. FP 101, no 6] Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French). Retrieved 20 October 2023.
- ^ Seebohm, Caroline (26 May 1982). The Man who was Vogue: The Life and Times of Condé Nast. Viking Press. p. 349. ISBN 9780670453665.
Solange d'Ayen, the aristocratic and beautiful fashion editor (to whom Poulenc once dedicated a song)
External links
- Fiançailles pour rire sur data.bnf.fr
- Original text by de Villmorin in French and English
- Fiançailles pour rire - Mélodies françaises on ForumOpera
- Fiançailles pour rire, song cycle for voice & piano, FP 101 on ALLMUSIC
- Mady Mesplé; Fiançailles pour rire on YouTube
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Francis Poulenc
- Les mamelles de Tirésias (1947)
- Dialogues of the Carmelites (1957)
- La voix humaine (1959)
- Les biches (1922)
- Aubade (1929)
- Les Animaux modèles (1941)
- Sinfonietta (1947)
- Concert champêtre (1927)
- Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932)
- Organ Concerto (1938)
- Piano Concerto (1949)
- Rapsodie nègre (1917)
- Sonata for two clarinets (1918)
- Sonata for clarinet and bassoon (1922)
- Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone (1922)
- Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano (1926)
- Sextet (1932)
- Villanelle (1934)
- Suite française (1935)
- Violin Sonata (1942)
- Cello Sonata (1948)
- Élégie pour cor et piano (1957)
- Flute sonata (1957)
- Clarinet Sonata (1962)
- Oboe Sonata (1962)
- Mouvements perpétuels (1919)
- Piano Suite (1920)
- Trois novelettes (1927)
- Soirées de Nazelles (1936)
- L'Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant (1940)
- La Courte Paille (1960)
- Chanson à boire (1922)
- Chansons gaillardes (1926)
- Fiançailles pour rire (1939)
- Les Chemins de l'amour (1940)
- Banalités (1940)
- Messe en sol majeur (1937)
- Sécheresses (1937)
- Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (1939)
- Figure humaine (1943)
- Litanies à la Vierge Noire (1936)
- Stabat Mater (1950)
- Gloria (1959)
- Sept répons des ténèbres (1963)
- L'Album des Six (1919)
- Les mariés de la tour Eiffel (1921)
- L'éventail de Jeanne (1927)
- Variations sur le nom de Marguerite Long (1956)
- Le Gendarme incompris (1920)
- Intermezzo (1933)
- Léocadia (1940)
- L'Invitation au château (1947)
- Amphitryon (1947)
- Renaud et Armide (1962)
- Les Six
- Brigitte Manceaux
- Neoclassicism
- "L'adieu du cavalier" (Tailleferre)
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