...and illuminating info about the Poulenc's music drawn from rare sources throughout. Carl B. Schmidt's biography (see: "Enchanting Muse", a must)is the bible (in the way that de la Grange's "Mahler Vol. I" is), this is the apocrypha...they go hand in hand. Will satisfy any questions you might have about Poulenc's pieces, some of which are the greatest of the 20th. century. (by Robert Shapiro, author of "Les Six" published by Peter Owen)