Milhaud: Keyboard Works

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Title Year Actions
9 Preludes, for organ, op. 231b

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Caramel mou, for piano, op. 68arr
L'Album de Madame Bovary, suite from film score, op. 128b

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La création du monde, reduction of ballet for piano, 4 hands, op. 81b
La muse ménagère, op. 245

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Le boeuf sur le toit, reduction of ballet for piano, 4 hands, op. 58arr
Mazurka, for piano

"Les Six" (French: [le sis]) is a name given to a group of six composers, five of them French and one Swiss, who lived and worked in Montparnasse. The name has its origins in two 1920 articles by critic Henri Collet in Comœdia (see Bibliography). Their music is often seen as a neoclassic reaction against both the musical style of Richard Wagner and the Impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel. The members were Georges Auric (1899–1983), Louis Durey (1888–1979), Arthur Honegger (1892–1955), Darius Milhaud (1892–1974), Francis Poulenc (1899–1963), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983).

Saudades do Brasil, op. 67

The Saudades do Brasil (1920), Op. 67, are a suite of twelve dances for piano by Darius Milhaud. Composed after Milhaud's visit to Brazil in 1917-1918, each dance is based on a duple tango or samba rhythm and bears the name of a place or neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. The title of the suite uses the Portuguese term saudade. In 1921 Milhaud arranged the suite for orchestra (op. 67b). The work is well known for its use of polytonality, though sections may also be considered extended tonality or, "harmonic color". There exists a transcription for orchestra by the composer with a brief added overture.

Scaramouche: Suite for 2 Pianos, op. 165b

Scaramouche, Op. 165, is a suite composed by Darius Milhaud in 1937. The suite is based on incidental music Milhaud wrote for two theatrical productions: Le Médecin volant and Bolivar. Scaramouche draws inspiration from various sources, with each of the suite's three movements being of a distinct character. Milhaud's characteristic use of polytonality can be heard throughout the piece. Scaramouche, which originally composed for saxophone and piano but not premiered as such, was arranged as a piano duo in 1937 at the request of Marguerite Long and was premiered at the Exposition internationale des arts et des techniques dans la vie moderne the same year. The suite was later arranged for various ensembles due to the piece's popularity, including arrangements for solo clarinet with orchestra at the request of the clarinettist Benny Goodman.

Tabernacles, for piano

William Elden Bolcom (born May 26, 1938) is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, and the Detroit Music Award, and was named Composer of the Year by Musical America in 2007. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 to 2008 and was named the Ross Lee Finney Distinguished University Professor of Composition in 2006. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.