Germaine Tailleferre of the French group Les Six wrote several works which could be considered to be inspired by Surrealism, including the 1948 Ballet Paris-Magie ( scenario by Lise Deharme ), the Operas La Petite Sirène ( book by Philippe Soupault ) and Le Maître ( book by Eugène Ionesco ).

Most notably Tailleferre wrote 18 short works in the Petit livre de harpe de Madame Tardieu for Caroline Tardieu, the Conservatory ’ s Assistant Professor of Harp.

Tailleferre wrote many of her most important works during the 1920s, including her 1st Piano Concerto, the Harp Concertino, the ballets Le marchand d ' oiseaux ( the most frequently performed ballet in the repertoire of the Ballets suédois during the 1920s ) and La nouvelle Cythère which was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev for the ill-fated 1929 season of the famous Ballets Russes, and Sous les ramparts d ' Athènes in collaboration with Paul Claudel, as well as several pioneering film scores, including B ' anda, in which she used African themes.

* 1921: Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel ( music by Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre )

" Chasse à l ' enfant " ( The hunt for the child ) were set to music by Joseph Kosma — and in some cases by Germaine Tailleferre of Les six, Christiane Verger, and Hanns Eisler.

* Les mariés de la tour Eiffel was a 1921 joint project by Auric, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre, on a scenario by Cocteau

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

* La nouvelle Cythère by Tailleferre ; written in 1929 for the Ballets Russes and unproduced because of Diaghilev's sudden death

* Sonate champêtre for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano by Tailleferre

See List of compositions by Germaine Tailleferre.

In 1962, Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six set eleven of his poems in a song cycle entitled " Pancarte pour Une Porte D ' Entrée " ( roughly translated as " Handbill for an entrance ") for medium voice and piano, commissioned by the American Soprano and Arts Patron Alice Swanson Esty.

This included performances of work by ' Les Six ' ( Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Germaine Tailleferre, Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc ), together with " Erik Satie et la jeune musique française ".

The publication of Jean Cocteau's manifesto Le coq et l ' Arlequin resulted in Henri Collet's media articles that led to instant fame for the group, of which Tailleferre was the only female member.

Composers who studied with him included Germaine Tailleferre, Roger Désormière, Francis Poulenc and Henri Sauguet.

She was born Marcelle Taillefesse at Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France, but as a young woman she changed her last name to " Tailleferre " to spite her father, who had refused to support her musical studies.

* 1892 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer ( d. 1983 )

* April 19 – Germaine Tailleferre, French composer ( d. 1983 )

Born in Marseilles to a Jewish family from Aix-en-Provence, Milhaud studied in Paris at the Paris Conservatory where he met his fellow group members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre.

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

Germaine Tailleferre ( 19 April 18927 November 1983 ) was a French composer and the only female member of the group of composers known as Les Six.

In 1923, Tailleferre began to spend a great deal of time with Maurice Ravel at his home in Monfort-L ' Amaury.

Germaine Tailleferre continued to compose right up until a few weeks before her death, on 7 November 1983 in Paris.

* Laura Mitgang " Germaine Tailleferre: Before, During and After Les Six " in The Musical Woman, Vol.

* Caroline Potter / Robert Orledge: Germaine Tailleferre ( 1892-1983 ): A Centenary Appraisal " Muziek & Wetenshap 2 ( Summer 1992 ) pp. 109-130

* April 19-Germaine Tailleferre ( d. 1983 )

* Germaine Tailleferre.

The French Composer Germaine Tailleferre of Les Six, who was a harp student of Tardieu's mother Caroline and who first met Tardieu as a child, set several of Tardieu's poems to music notably in the " Concerto des Vaines Paroles " for Baritone Voice, Piano and Orchestra and in the cycle " Trois Poèmes de Jean Tardieu " for Voice and Piano.

and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.

Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noel Coward also wrote the book and directed Sail Away ( Capitol WAO 1643 ; ;

Averroes, Avicenna and Alpharabius, who wrote on Aristotle in great depth, also influenced Thomas Aquinas and other Western Christian scholastic philosophers.

He also frequently wrote screenplays for other directors.

He also wrote:

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

In addition, he wrote that each person will experience a world of their own, though he also wrote that the dream world doesn't necessarily have to be solipsistic as different selves may be able to communicate with each other by dream telepathy.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Ambrose also wrote a treatise by the name of " The Goodness of Death ".

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost.

He also wrote Sapphic stanzas on Homeric themes but in unHomeric style, comparing Helen of Troy unfavourably with Thetis, the mother of Akhilles.

It was said he had a son, called Stephanus, who also wrote comedies.

There is also some evidence that, during his old age, he wrote plays in the style of New Comedy.

Andronicus wrote a work upon Aristotle, the fifth book of which contained a complete list of the philosopher's writings, and he also wrote commentaries upon the Physics, Ethics, and Categories.

The decimal point notation was introduced by Sind ibn Ali, he also wrote the earliest treatise on Arabic numerals.

From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie ( Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry ) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and Johann Christian Poggendorff, and he also wrote an important textbook.

He also wrote controversial criticisms of the British class structure which seemed to conflict with his promotion of Anglo-American friendship.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

He also wrote ' Ends and Means ' about his views on the technique.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.