The Sonate pour hautbois et piano, FP 185, is an oboe sonata by Francis Poulenc dating from 1962.
[2] The first movement, Élégie (elegy), is marked Paisiblement, sans presser (Peacefully, without hurry).
The three-partite movement has toccata-like features in its outer parts, with pointed rhythms and arpeggios.
The entrance of the oboe is marked monotone, and the essentially sad music shifts in tonality towards the close.
[2] A reviewer from The New York Times described the sonata as a "paradoxical mix of the elegiac, the suave and the clever".