| The members of Les Nouveaux Jeunes, or as they later became known Les Six -- composers Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre and their unofficial and mischievous 'godfather' Erik Satie -- all shared a fascination with this new music, which provided them with a source of inspiration in their own works, where they 'fused art and modern life'. In 1920, Henri Collet called "Les six" to the group of young French composers Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud, Louis Durey, Georges 9) On Democratic-Republican radicalism, see Joyce Appleby, Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican Vision of the 1790s (New York, 1984); Michael Durey, "Thomas Paine's Apostles: Radical Emigres and the Triumph of Jeffersonian Republicanism," William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser. |
