List of compositions by Francis Poulenc

[2] According to this list, the first noted piece was in 1914 Processional pour la crémation d'un mandarin for piano, now lost or destroyed.

Piano, chamber music and songs As a professional pianist, Poulenc wrote many pieces for his own instrument.

He composed easily for woodwind instruments, scoring for example a piano trio with oboe and bassoon instead of the traditional violin and cello.

The cellist Pierre Fournier helped him to write the Cello Sonata, which he premiered with the composer as the pianist.

[3] Poulenc destroyed all sketches for string quartets and three for violin sonatas, while only the fourth one survived, but was received critically.

He further set poems by Théodore de Banville, Maurice Carême, Colette, Robert Desnos, Maurice Fombeure, Marie Laurencin, Madeleine Ley, François de Malherbe, Ronsard, Jean Moréas, Jean Nohain and Paul Valéry, among others.

The group of stage works contains operas, ballets and incidental music, while film scores are marked separately.