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Her delicate sensibility allowed her to interpret Ravel's "Histoires naturelles" with poetry and all the desired irony. Interpreter of unpublished works by
Nicolas Nabokof, Suzanne Peignot plays with the traps innocently set by the author who writes with a freedom like no other! Francis Poulenc's music, with its delicacy and melodic charm, also suits this sensitive and distinguished artist; her interpretation of the
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Their relationship is as intimate as it is shared: "My treasure," he wrote to her in 1934. You are to me what you tell me I am to you and you are exactly the only "person in the world who makes me feel like a sister". I always open your letters with joy and it is with much more joy that I await your
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arrival on the road. "For her part, she confides: For me, Francis was even more than a brother; he was an incomparable friend and a light that guided me throughout my career. His judgments about music were always brilliant and accurate. Working with him was an exciting and rich experience."
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could phone her in the late evening to ask her to come and sing for him the next morning at seven o'clock on the radio; on arrival at the studio, the composer had not yet written the accompaniment to his melodies: he would then sit down at the piano, play a few chords, spell out one or two
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Poulenc's proverbial lack of enthusiasm for making his music work did not prevent complicity: "When they had not achieved a satisfactory result, he would only say to her, in the nasal and straightforward manner that characterised him: "You sang like a pig. Come on, let's do it again!".
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In 1961, Francis
Poulenc and Suzanne Peignot almost killed themselves in a violent car accident on the way to Auric's house, from which they escaped unharmed; she reports that he confided to her that he almost wished he had "died like that, a brutal death, without noticing it".
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Divorced in 1933, she remarried in 1942 to Henri
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was spiritual and warm. The virtuosos
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was not as good on the radio as at home".) She gave a few concerts there for the benefit of Jewish refugees. She also liked to recall that she had offered there the hospitality of one evening to
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Parisian grandparents. She took singing lessons with Madame Ronceret (who introduced her to
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This is evidenced by the composer's numerous dedications. Thus, in 1928, he wrote: "For 'my' Suzanne
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