Poulenc met Cocteau early in his career because of Cocteau’s close relationship with Les Six, a group of six French composers of which Poulenc was a member.
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Erwartung (1924) and La voix humaine (1959) closely follow the traditional definition, while in Eight Songs for a Mad King (1969) by Peter Maxwell Davies, the instrumentalists are brought to the stage to participate in the action.