Louis Durey

Louis Durey would probably be a totally obscure French composer, instead of a semi-unknown, if it were not for his association with a handful of fellow composers in Paris after the First World War. Based on his friendship with Francis Poulenc, he became part of a circle of composers who were dubbed "Les Six." Thrust into the spotlight by a newspaper article, and kept there by their self-appointed spokesman Jean Cocteau, this group was quite the sensation for a few years after the war. But Durey was never happy with the publicity, and in 1921 he moved to the south of France in ...