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Les Six

Les Six [ lay sss ]


noun 
Definition:
 
group of French composers: a group of six French composers, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Germaine Tailleferre, Francis Poulenc, and Georges Auric, who promoted an anti-Romantic aesthetic influenced by Erik Satie and the writer Jean Cocteau in the early 20th century

[Early 20th century. French, "the six"]
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