Fifty years ago today, French composer Francis Poulenc had a massive heart attack in his Paris apartment and died. He was only 64, but he left us with an assortment of durable music that still ...

In Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, there's a roller-coaster ride of mood changes, but always an underlying wit. Teres Loef and Johan Ullen are the duo pianists in this performance ...

Poulenc: A Biography, Roger Nichols, Yale, 372 pages, June 2020; Poulenc: The Life in the Songs, Graham Johnson, Liveright, 608 pages, June 2020. “All my life I have had a certain idea of France ...

French Composer Francis Poulenc has a favorite religious scene: the painting by Andrea Mantegna (1431-1506) in one corner of which a small rabbit crouches unaware of the tragedy being unfolded on ...

Nothing was so amusing to French Composer Francis Poulenc as hearing his friends marvel at the quilt of contradictions that masked his music and his life. "I am half-monk, half-bounder," he ...

Francis Poulenc’s Improvisation No. 15 pays homage to Edith Piaf. Tonight, pianist Gila Goldstein performs a recital at Boston University including Francis Poulenc’s Improvisation No. 15.

At the end of 1940, after Paris had fallen under German occupation, the spectacularly refined French composer Francis Poulenc made a musical setting of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem “Sanglots ...

On a blizzardy weekend in January of 1961, the Boston Symphony Orchestra premiered Francis Poulenc’s Gloria at Symphony Hall with the composer in attendance. The performance was spectacular. In his ...

Kurt Weill and Francis Poulenc were born about a year apart, and their lives paralleled one another when they both lived in 1930s France. In a recital at the National Gallery of Art on Sunday ...