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Scope and Content Note
The Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale Collection of Music Manuscripts contains nine manuscript scores dated from 1948 to 1965. All nine pieces are scored for two pianos, and were written for or dedicated to Gold and Fizdale by the composers. Three of the six composers appearing in this collection (Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre) were members of the twentieth-century group of French composers known as "Les Six." Francis Poulenc's Sonata for Two Pianos is considered a standard in the two-piano repertory.