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Les Six
Les Six
is a name given to a group of six French composers who worked in
Montparnasse
. The name, inspired by
Mily Balakirev
's
The Five
, originates in critic
Henri Collet
's 1920 article "" (
Comoedia
, 16 January 1920). Their music is often seen as a reaction against the musical style of
Richard Wagner
and the
impressionist music
of
Claude Debussy
and
Maurice Ravel
.
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