Talk:Les Six

message: The information for the painting is as follows:
1. Le Groupe des Six, 1922 by Jacques-Emile Blanche.  In the center, pianist Marcelle Meyer; from bottom to top: Germaine Tailleferre, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Jean Wiener; on the right: Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Jean Cocteau.  Here Jean Wiener, pianist, replaces Louis Durey who left the group in 1921.  (--65.25.248.41 26 Jan 2004 22:18)
: The caption should be clarified, preferably by simply listing the people in clockwise order or such.  I assume the intended meaning of the current listing is "In the center, pianist Marcelle Meyer; on the left, from bottom to top: Germaine Tailleferre, Darius Milhaud, Arthur Honegger, Jean Wiener; on the right, from bottom to top: Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Jean Cocteau", and Wikipedia's photos of Tailleferre and Cocteau would seem to confirm that.  But I'll leave it to someone who's certain about the information to do the rewording.  (By the way, there's a somewhat better photo of the painting here.  IANAL by any stretch of the imagination, but if I remember correctly, simple photographs of expired-copyright paintings are exempt from copyright protection (though, I guess that might vary from country to country).)  --164.76.162.246 7 July 2005 02:34 (UTC)
The person in the painting who is supposedly Jean Wiener doesn't look at all like Wiener.  But he DOES look like every picture of Louis Durey that I've ever seen.  Have a look at google:
http://images.google.fr/images?svnum=10&hl=fr&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Louis+Durey&btnG=Rechercher
I talked to Tailleferre's Granddaughter and heir and she says that Tailleferre said that all Six were in there for the painting.  So, that must be Durey....what would Wiener be doing there in the first place?  
Durey did not leave the group in 1922 either.  He was at every one of the anniversary concerts beginning with the tenth anniversary in 1930.  Musikfabrik 17:19, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
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message: I've deleted "individual compositions not related to Les Six" by Satie, since this is the Les Six Page.
Concerning the Emile Blanche painting, I'm surprized that this is a public domaine image.  The original painting is in the Museum of Rouen and Emile Blanche's work is still protected.  Can anyone confirm the public domaine status of this image?
I've also added more information about the orgins of Les Six, most of which is taken from a book published by Marie-Thérèse Clostre-Collet about her father, which contains the entire text of the two articles written by Collet, the letters written by all the members of the Group (including Poulenc's famous Dedication to Collet on a copy of his "Bestiaire" which states "To the Man who came up with 'Les Six'".  I'll be adding other information as I have time, as well as other information from sources relating to Germaine Tailleferre. Musikfabrik 17:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
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message: I have recaptioned the painting, in accordance with the above, and my memory of photos (ahem) - Rothorpe 23:24, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: A quick glance suggests that most of the article is very good. Only the section "Selected music by individual members of Les Six" has not been updated for some years, and quite frankly it seems to be an arbitrary collection of works individual editors happen to like, whether they're representative of Les Six or not. Bear in mind that Poulenc for one insisted that 15 years after the group was named (in 1920) individual members were "pursuing our own paths" and were by then only united by "ties of affection". Works such as Poulenc's Cello Sonata and his Flute Sonata, composed respectively in the 1940s and 1950s, are far from representative of the group's aesthetics (as far as they can be identified). I am replacing these with more apt works, but no doubt some of the works representing other composers of the group should be reconsidered. Alfietucker (talk) 09:29, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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