Sonata for Flute and Piano, FP 164

• Poulenc composed this sonata in 1956-7.¹
• Poulenc dedicate this sonata “à la mémoire de Madame Sprague Coolidge.”² Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge was an influential American arts patron who was especially supportive of chamber music.  
  • Check out these other Research Site pages which feature Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge. 
• Jean-Pierre Rampal played this piece’s premiere on June 18,1957, with the composer at the piano.³

Movements 

1. Allegro malinconico 
2. Cantilena 
3. Presto giocoso⁸⁶ 

1. Myriam Chimènes and Roger Nichols, “Poulenc, Francis,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed October 7, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000022202.
2. Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Flute and Piano (London: J. & W. Chester, 1958).
3. Deborah Mawer, “Sonata for flute and piano,” Hyperion (2001), accessed October 7, 2021, https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dw.asp?dc=W2213_67255.