Item #33828 [Op. 14]. Mouvements perpétuels [Solo piano]. Francis POULENC.

[Op. 14]. Mouvements perpétuels [Solo piano]

... Prix net : 3s 0d

London: J. & W. Chester [PN J.W.C. 050], 1919.

Folio. Original publisher's light brown printed wrappers; publisher's catalogue to verso of lower. [i] (title), 2-8 pp.

Wrappers somewhat browned and partially split; outer corners chipped with minor loss; previous owner's name in manuscript to upper "Richard J. MacKenzie ... 1937"; small price stamp to outer corner. Slightly worn; light internal browning,

First Edition. Schmidt FP14, p. 33.

"Poulenc never questioned the supremacy of the tonal-modal system. Chromaticism in his music is never more than passing, even if he used the diminished 7th more than any leading composer since Verdi. Texturally, rhythmically, harmonically, he was not particularly inventive. For him the most important element of all was melody and he found his way to a vast treasury of undiscovered tunes within an area that had, according to the most up-to-date musical maps, been surveyed, worked and exhausted. His definitive statement came perhaps in a letter of 1942: ‘I know perfectly well that I'm not one of those composers who have made harmonic innovations like Igor [Stravinsky], Ravel or Debussy, but I think there's room for new music which doesn't mind using other people's chords. Wasn't that the case with Mozart–Schubert?’. And if Poulenc was not quite a Schubert, he is among the 20th century's most eligible candidates for the succession." Roger Nichols in Grove Music Online.

Item #33828

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