This publication occurred in the same year as Les Six was first named as a recognisable group in French music.
[3] The group was only ever a very loose association, and did not exist in order to create compositions collaboratively.
However, there were six occasions on which more than one member was involved in joint compositional projects (sometimes along with composers from outside the group of Les Six).
[4][5] The pieces of L'Album des Six and their composers are: The suite takes about 11 minutes to play.
[6] Poulenc was the only one of the six composers to have left a major corpus of piano music;[4] he also orchestrated his Valse in C in 1932.