Poulenc began sketching his Trio for Oboe, Bassoon and Piano in 1921, while still a student, but he did not finish it until 1926. Francis Poulenc was only 21 at the time, and he was well on his way to developing the musical personality that the critic Claude Rostand would famously describe as “part monk, part rascal” decades later. Instead, their strongest bond was a shared regard for Erik Satie, the elder statesman of French experimental music. The six musicians-Auric, Durey, Honegger, Milhaud, Poulenc and Tailleferre-did not all subscribe to any particular compositional philosophy. An article published in 1920 identified a group of rising French composers as “ Les Six,” an honorific that placed them on the level of “The Russian Five” from an earlier generation.
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