Composer Erik Satie wrote the attached article as a salute to six unique French composers who had been working in Montparnasse during the previous years.

“To me, the New Spirit seems a return to classic form with an admixture of modern sensibility. This modern sensibility you will discover in certain ones of the “Six” -George Autic (1899 – 1983), Francis Poulenc (1899-1963), Darius Milhaud (1892 – 1974)…”


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