POULENC Francis (1899 - 1963) - Lot 152

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POULENC Francis (1899 - 1963) - Lot 152
POULENC Francis (1899 - 1963) MUSICAL MANUSCRIT autograph "Francis Poulenc", Trois Chansons de Federico Garcia Lorca, 1947; Italian style notebook: 1 title sheet and 8 oblong pages in-fol. (24 x 33 cm). Complete manuscript of this cycle of three melodies on poems of Garcia Lorca. Composed in his house in Noizay during the summer of 1947, this cycle of three melodies [FP 136] on poems by Federico Garcia LORCA (1898 - 1936), translated into French by Félix Gattegno, was premiered by Pierre Bernac and the composer, Salle Gaveau, on November 12, 1947, and published the same month by Heugel. In August, Poulenc wrote to Bernac: "The three very subtle Lorca give me trouble but I will get out of it. The first one, which hardly modulates, is something for me like Ingénus for Debussy (minus the genre). [...] The whole piece is written not high-pitched so that Gérard [Souzay] can sing it". On September 1, sending them to Bernac, he commented: "It is quite new in writing (without understudy). [...] it must give something mysterious and diaphanous. [...] The third (Song of the dry orange tree) is a Sarabande !!!! The second one is a jota a bit like Plazza Clichy as Satie used to say". In 1943, Poulenc had written a sonata for violin and piano dedicated to the memory of Garcia Lorca. The manuscript, for song and piano, is written in midnight blue ink on oblong paper with 14 lines; it was used for the engraving (ink stamp of the Archives Heugel on the first and last pages). It includes the three melodies: I. L'Enfant muet, dedicated "to Geneviève Touraine" (1903 - 1981, soprano), marked Modéré mais sans traîner - Rigoureusement au même mouvement jusqu'à la dernière note : "L'enfant cherche sa voix"..., in F sharp minor at 4/4, dated at the end "Noizay - Eté 47" (2 pages); II. Adelina à la promenade, dedicated "to Madame Auguste Lambiotte" (1891 - 1964, friend from Brussels), marked Follement vite (in a whirlwind) : "La mer n'a pas d'oranges et Séville n'a pas d'amour"..., in G flat major at 6/8=2/4, dated at the end "Noizay Septembre 47" (3 pages); III. Song of the dry orange tree, dedicated to "Gérard Souzay" (1918 - 2004, baritone), marked Tempo de Sarabande: "Bûcheron abats mon arbre"..., in E flat major at 3/4, dated at the end "Noizay Septembre 47" (3 pages). DISCOGRAPHY François Le Roux, Pascal Rogé (Decca 1998).
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