Fiançailles pour rire

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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

List of compositions
- List of works for piano

Operas

Les mamelles de Tirésias (1947)
Dialogues of the Carmelites (1957)
La voix humaine (1959)

Ballets

Les biches (1922)
Aubade (1929)
Les Animaux modèles (1941)

Orchestral music

Sinfonietta (1947)

Concertos

Concert champêtre (1927)
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra (1932)
Organ Concerto (1938)
Piano Concerto (1949)

Chamber music

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)

Piano music

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)

Songs

Chanson à boire (1922)
Chansons gaillardes (1926)
Fiançailles pour rire (1939)
Les Chemins de l'amour (1940)
Banalités (1940)

Choir (a cappella)

Messe en sol majeur (1937)
Sécheresses (1937)
Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence (1939)
Figure humaine (1943)

Choir and orchestra

Litanies à la Vierge Noire (1936)
Stabat Mater (1950)
Gloria (1959)
Sept répons des ténèbres (1963)

Collaborations

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)

Incidental music

Le Gendarme incompris (1920)
Intermezzo (1933)
Léocadia (1940)
L'Invitation au château (1947)
Amphitryon (1947)
Renaud et Armide (1962)

Related

Les Six
Brigitte Manceaux
Neoclassicism
"L'adieu du cavalier" (Tailleferre)

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