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Poulenc began work on his ballet in 1940, completing a piano score in
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the ant an old provincial housemaid, the amorous lion a pimp, Death an elegant woman – a kind of duchess with a mask". The commentator Gérald Hugon observes:
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Entrancing Muse: A Documented
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The Music of
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