Check out this extensive list below. Enjoy.

Stage:
Les Biches, Pastrourelle, Les mamelles de Tiresias, Dialogues of the Carmelies, La voix humaine

Orchestral:
Sinfonietta

Concertante:
Concert Champetre, Aubade, Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor, Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani in G minor, Piano Concerto

Vocal and Choral Orchestral:
Litanies a la vierge noirem, Stabat Mater, Gloria, Sept repons des tenebres, La Dame de Monte-Carlo

Chamber and Instrumental:
Sonata for 2 Clarinets, Sonata for Violin and Piano, Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, Sonata for Horn, Trumpet and Trombine, Trio for Oboe, Basson and Piano, Villanelle, Suite francaise, Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet, Sonata for Violin and Piano, Sonata for Cello and Piano, Trois mouvements, perpetuels, Flute Sonata, Elegie, Sarabande for Guitar, Clarinet Sonata, Oboe Sonata

Piano:
Piano Suite, Sonata for Piano Duet, Three Novelettes

Two Pianos:
Concerto for 2 pianos & orchestra, Sonata for 2 pianos, Sonata for piano, Capriccio for 2 pianos, L’embarquement pour Cythere, Elegie

Choral:
Chanson a boire, Sept chansons, Litanies a la vierge noire, Petites voix, Mass in G, Secheresses, Quatre motets pour un temps de pentitence, Exulte Deo, Salve Regina, Figure humaine, Un soir de neige, Chansons francaises, Quatre petites prieres de Saint Francois d’Assise, Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel, Ave verum corpus, Laudes de Saint Antonie de Padoue

Vocal:
Le Portrait, Le Grenouillere, Deux poemes d’Apollinaire, Bleutet, Banalites, The Story of babar the Elephant, Paul et Virginie, Rosemonde, Parisiana, Dernier Poeme, La courte Paille

If you’re talking about Francis Poulenc then it should. Apparently Poulenc was a fan of children’s book Babar the Elephant, first released in 1931. Though Poulenc was already over 30 by the time the Babar books first came out he was taken by the charming fictional elephant, demonstrated by his creation of The Story of Babar the Elephant which Poulenc scored for joint narrative and piano.

First released in 1940, The Story of Babar the Elephant can still be found today online and through stores (though it’s probably been a while since they last recorded a new version).

Gloria is based off a Roman Catholic hymn known normally as the Gloria in Excelsis Deo (”Glory to God in the Highest”, itself part of the Angelic Hymn. Gloria is composed of six movements.

Poulenc had long wanted to compose a sonata strictly for the flute as he indicated in a series of letters; however it took him until 1956 to actually begin work on the sonata, which he told Rampal about over the phone.

Though the sonata made its debut in 1957 it did not reach a worldwide audience until 1958, when Poulenc played it both on the BBC and in the American Coolidge Auditorium. A great success, the sonata is still played often to this day.

The song as it is may not be exactly what Poulenc envisioned, as it was published posthumously. Editors have had to guess as to what certain notes in the composition are ever since.

Premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1963 by Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein three months after Poulenc died, the Clarinet Sonata comes in three distinct movements that differ in pacing from typical compositions of the period. It usually takes 13 minutes to fully perform the Sonata.

The Francis Poulenc Clarinet Sonata was to be among a group of sonatas dedicated to each woodwind instrument, but this goal was cut short by Poulenc’s death.

You can hear some of Poulenc’s Clarinet Sonata below:

And, amazingly enough, he wasn’t formally taught at the Conservatoire of Paris like many of his contemporaries. For the first 21 years of his life he was self taught, and didn’t receive any professional training until 1921.

The Conservatoire has a long history of churning out pros, its former student including Claude Debussy, Jacques-Louis Monod, Jean Langlais and Theodore Dubois, all accomplished musicians. That Poulenc composed as successfully as he did without their training makes his accomplishments doubly impressive. Perhaps because of this he had a reputation for breaking traditions and experimenting (successfully) with his compositions.