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Germaine Tailleferre
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One of the lesser known members of the so-called Les Six group of composers (with Poulenc, Milhaud, Auric, Durey and Honegger), Germaine Tailleferre was influenced by the clarity and simplicity of Satie, and by her teacher Ravel. She wrote music that was generally light-weight in style with occasional excursions into new techniques, without ever deserting her original inspiration. 
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| Tailleferre's stage works include the 1921 collaboration with other members of Les Six in Cocteau’s "Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel". Other works for the theatre range from the 1923 opera Marchand des oiseaux (Bird-Seller) to the 1961 chamber opera Le maître (The Master), based on Ionesco. Examples of Tailleferre's chamber music are found in her two violin sonatas and violin sonatina, as well as in her Jeux de plein air (Games in the Open Air) for two pianos.
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