ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the interview took place in Poulenc's home with Martine Cadieu in the rue de Medicis when the 'Generals' putsch in Algeria on 21 April caused alarm and mobilisation in the capital, before the authorities reasserted control a few days later. Poulenc's character, pure, violent, sincere, has triumphed over every difficulty with an ease and a verve that you find in his conversation. He like music that's human, humour, laughter, or prayer and oscillates between gravity and fantasy. Martine Cadieu and Poulenc were talking about Schonberg's Moses und Aron. Francis Poulenc was sitting in a corner of the 'piano room', very close to the window, silent and surrounded by a heap of newspapers. On the piano, the score of Aubade, a heap of Chabrier discs. The works of Boulez, the great composer of the young generation, have transported me; Boulez is intelligent, he knows why he writes that kind of music, and then he has the famous gift.
