Gencer's repertoire consists of 72 roles including works from composers such as ; Monteverdi, Gluck, Mozart to neo-classical period ; from Cherubini, Spontini, Johann Simon Mayr and the romantic period to Puccini, Prokofiev, Britten, Poulenc, Menotti and Rocca ; from a lyric soprano varying to dramatic colorature.

Others: John Browne, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Villiers Stanford, Charles Gounod, Krzysztof Penderecki, Francis Poulenc, Giovanni Felice Sances, Alessandro Scarlatti ( 1724 ), Domenico Scarlatti ( 1715 ), Pedro de Escobar, František Tůma, Vladimir Martynov, Arvo Pärt, Josef Rheinberger, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, Pasquale Cafaro, Zoltán Kodály, Trond Kverno ( 1991 ), Pawel Lukaszewski ( 1994 ), Frank Ferko ( 1999 ), Salvador Brotons ( 2000 ), Bruno Coulais ( 2005 ), the black metal band Anorexia Nervosa, the symphonic metal band Epica on the album The Classical Conspiracy, and Karl Jenkins.

His orchestral repertoire numbered over 450 works from all periods, and was matched by a repertoire of some sixty operas ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner to the more contemporary Prokofiev, Bartók, Britten, Kodály, Poulenc and Janáček.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

They were responsible for commissioning some of the greatest songs and chamber music works of Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Poulenc.

She has also made recital recordings of French Impressionist composers ( Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Boulanger, Ibert, Dutilleux, Poulenc and Feld ) for Upbeat Records and Master Classics.

*“ Recital ”, Opus 1-Feld, Boulanger, Rutter, Sichler, Messiaen, Poulenc, Debussy, Saint-Saens ; Susan Milan & Ian Brown.

" He names Federico Mompou, Claude Debussy, Paul Hindemith, Francis Poulenc, and Elliott Carter as clear musical influences in Moravec's music.

Other works he played in harmonica arrangements were by Bartók, Beethoven ( Minuet in G ), Debussy, Falla, Gershwin ( Rhapsody in Blue ), Mozart ( slow movement from the Oboe Quartet, K. 470 ), Poulenc, Ravel ( Boléro ), Stravinsky and Walton.

Important French composers include Pérotin, Machaut, Josquin des Prez, Lully, Couperin, Rameau, Leclair, Grétry, Méhul, Auber, Berlioz, Alkan, Offenbach, Franck, Saint-Saëns, Fauré, Massenet, D ' Indy, Debussy, Ravel, Satie, Roussel, Milhaud, Poulenc, Messiaen, Dutilleux and Boulez.

Villette's music is a product of a French musical heritage that includes Fauré and Debussy as well as Poulenc and Messiaen, and a French cultural legacy that includes Catholicism and the Order of Saint Benedict.

Ruth Laredo also recorded more than 20 albums featuring works of other composers, among them Isaac Albéniz, Bach, Beethoven, Lili Boulanger, Brahms, Chopin, Falla, Debussy, Khachaturian, Fauré, Mozart, Poulenc, Ravel, Clara and Robert Schumann, Tchaikovsky as well as of the American composers Barber, Aaron Copland, Ives, Laderman, Kirchner, Rorem and Siegmeister.

The piece was later expanded into a full opera, with music by Satie, Poulenc and Ravel.

The word surrealist was first used by Guillaume Apollinaire to describe his 1917 play Les Mamelles de Tirésias ( The Breasts of Tiresias ), which was later adapted into an opera by Francis Poulenc.

* The French composer Francis Poulenc also wrote an opera called Les Mamelles de Tirésias (" The Breasts of Tiresias ") based on Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealist text of 1917.

Although the score of his only opera bouffe, Les mamelles de Tirésias (" Tiresias ' Breasts ", after Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealist drama ) was completed in 1945, it was not performed until 1947, after Poulenc met soprano Denise Duval.

In 1953, Poulenc started working on what was to become the opera Dialogues of the Carmelites based on a story by Georges Bernanos.

He is especially associated with Francis Poulenc, giving the premiere of his opera La voix humaine at the Opéra-Comique in 1959 and his Sept répons des ténèbres in 1963.

Dialogues of the Carmelites ( in French, Dialogues des carmélites ), is an opera in three acts by Francis Poulenc.

Poulenc saw the play, but it was on suggestion of his publishing firm Ricordi to turn the subject into an opera.

The idea for the opera came at at time when Poulenc had recommited himself to spirituality and ( though openly gay ) Roman Catholicism.

Poulenc declined the commission soon as he was just finishing the orchestration of his new opera and the première in Milan was too close.

Spivacke again offered the commission in May, and this time Poulenc responded in August when he noted that the opera was in order and he could write something for him.

Rarities performed in the 1960s included operas by Handel and Janáček ( neither composer's works being as common in the opera house then as now ), and works by Gluck ( Iphigénie en Tauride ), Poulenc ( The Carmelites ), Ravel ( L ' heure espagnole ) and Tippett ( King Priam ).

Poulenc first thought of setting the opera in the 1930s, and began composition in 1939, finishing in 1944.

The play has been adapted into an opera by Francis Poulenc.

Her last performances on stage were in March 1981 in the one-woman opera, La voix humaine by Poulenc.

He began appearing in recital with Poulenc as his accompanist in 1934 and they continued performing together until Bernac withdrew from performing in public about 1960.

Jean-Pierre Rampal learned about the sonata in a phone call from Poulenc.

Francis Poulenc literally sang her praises, considering her an equal to Paul Éluard and Max Jacob, found in her writing " a sort of sensitive impertinence, libertinage, and an appetite which, carried on into song what I tried to express in my extreme youth with Marie Laurencin in Les Biches.

While in Paris he studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, ( 1948 – 1952 ) " Paris in the late 1940s and early 1950s was a Mecca for American and European artists ... Pollack said the tutelage of the Parisian artists he came in contact with ( Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Francis Poulenc, Jacques Lipchitz, and Constantin Brancusi ) made him realize ' my responsibility to civilization ' Pollack spent 14 years in Paris, eight of them living directly next door to the famed sculptor Constantin Brancusi who became his mentor.

* 1957: Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc

* Chevalier, Dialogues of the Carmelites ( Poulenc )

That same season the company presented the New York premiere of Poulenc ’ s Dialogues of the Carmelites.

:* Madame Lidoine, Dialogues of the Carmelites ( Poulenc )

Concertos for the instrument were written by Francis Poulenc ( the Concert champêtre, 1927 – 28 ), Manuel de Falla, Bertold Hummel, Henryk Mikołaj Górecki, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, and Roberto Carnevale.

* 1899 – Francis Poulenc, French composer ( d. 1963 )

Examples include works by Richard Strauss, Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc, Charles Villiers Stanford, Edmund Rubbra, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Lennox Berkeley, Morten Lauridsen, Edward Elgar, Hugo Distler, Ernst Krenek, and Michael Finnissy.

Francis Poulenc is one of the very few post-war composers of any nationality whose operas ( which include Dialogues des Carmélites ) have gained a foothold in the international repertory.

** Francis Poulenc, French composer, heart failure ( b. 1899 )

* French — Lannoy, Robert: " Pierrot the Street-Waif " ( 1938 ; choir with mixed voices and piano ; text by Paul Verlaine ); Poulenc, Francis: " Pierrot " ( 1933 ; voice and piano ; text by Théodore de Banville ); Privas, Xavier: Many works, in both Chansons vécues ( 1903 ; " Unfaithful Pierrot ", " Pierrot Sings ", etc.

Souzay's repertoire extended from the Baroque works of Jean-Baptiste Lully to 20th-century composers such as Francis Poulenc.

Imogen Holst introduced early choral music, and soon works by European composers rarely heard at that time in England were in the repertoire, such as Berg, Mahler, Schoenberg, Poulenc, Boulez, and Webern.

Later composers to write nocturnes for the piano include Gabriel Fauré, Alexander Scriabin, Erik Satie ( 1919 ), Francis Poulenc ( 1929 ), as well as Peter Sculthorpe.

However, in a manner befitting the Chapel's French architectural style and French-inspired organ, its speciality is perhaps the music of the great late French tradition, taking in the Masses of Louis Vierne, Maurice Duruflé, Jean Langlais, Charles-Marie Widor and Gabriel Fauré, as well as the motets of Marcel Dupré, Francis Poulenc, Pierre Villette and Olivier Messiaen.

Milhaud dedicated his fourth string quintet to Honegger's memory, while Francis Poulenc similarly dedicated his Clarinet Sonata.

In 1927, Auric, Milhaud and Poulenc, along with seven other composers who were not part of Les Six, jointly composed the children's ballet L ' éventail de Jeanne.

In 1952, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre and three other composers collaborated on La guirlande de Campra.

** Contributing composers included Auric, Milhaud and Poulenc, along with Jean Françaix, Léo Preger and Henri Sauguet.

* La guirlande de Campra was a set of orchestral variations composed jointly in 1952 by Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre and three other composers.

Auric and Poulenc were the only members of Les Six to participate in all five of these collaborative projects.

Francis Poulenc.

She studied piano with her mother at home, composing short works of her own, after which she began studying at the Paris Conservatory where she met Louis Durey, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Georges Auric and Arthur Honegger.

Poulenc and harpsichordist Wanda Landowska.

Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc () ( 7 January 189930 January 1963 ) was a French composer and a member of the French group Les Six.

Poulenc was born in Paris in 1899.