Les Six

Les Six was a group of young French composers consisting of Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre, brought together by Erik Satie and Jean Cocteau at the end of the First World War, which achieved international fame in the 1920's. A unique collaboration that has never been matched in classical music, with Cocteau as their spokesman, the group was a phenomenon born out of the shock of the German invasion of France in 1914, an avant-garde riposte to the impressionism of composers such as Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel and the…