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Germaine Tailleferre, compositora francesa, nació en Saint-Maur-des-Fossés (Val-de-Marne) el 19 de abril de 1892 y murió en París el 7 de noviembre de 1983.
«Una Marie Laurencin para el oído», como Jean Cocteau hablaba de Germaine Tailleferre, la única mujer del célebre Groupe des Six (junto con Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud et Francis Poulenc). Esta expresión que buscaba establecer una correspondencia entre las acuarelas decorativas de Laurencin y la música de Tailleferre, por simpática que fuera, no fue muy apropiada. Ingenuidad, frescura, femeneidad, son cualidades que se asocian con Tailleferre desde su llegada al Groupe des...
Singer/actress Germaine Montero was one of the more celebrated vocalists in France during the mid-20th century, although her repertory was truly international, and she also divided much of her professional career between music and acting. Born Germaine Berthe Caroline Heygel in Paris in 1909, she made her acting debut at the theater of the renowned Spanish author Frederico Garcia Lorca when she was 18. Over the decades that followed, she was acclaimed for her work in Spanish theater and French song, as well as works by Bertolt Brecht. In 1952, she scored a huge state success with her performance in...
Jean Sablon (Nogent-sur-Marne 25 March 1906 – 24 February 1994 at Cannes) was a popular French singer and actor.
The son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment, Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lyceé Charlemagne in Paris. He left before graduating to enroll at the Paris Conservatoire in order to concentrate on a vocal career. He started in the cabarets of Paris at the age of 17, and was subsequently accompanied on his first album by the pianist/composer Mireille, whose song Couchés dans le foin became a great success....
