Six, (le Groupe des Six)

les Six, (le Groupe des Six) Composers Georges Auric (1899 – 1983), Louis Durey (1888 – 1979), Arthur Honegger (1892 – 1955), Darius Milhaud (1892 – 1974), Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre (1892 – 1983), a group informally allied under the guidance of Erik Satie (1866 – 1925) and Jean Cocteau. Their esthetic was one of reaction against both the hyper-romantic style of Wagner (1813 – 1883) and the perceived over-refinement of Impressionism. Some of them favored the introduction of…