Final : Galop French Cancan from Parisians - Sheet Music for woodwind ensemble Germaine Tailleferre/Paul Wehage

In 1953, Tailleferre received a commission from the Royal Ballet in Copenhagen for a new ballet score. The work was intended as a holiday production and was supposed to depict various Parisian scenes in a sort of "Postcard from Paris"atmosphere. Tailleferre enlisted her son-in-law Jean-Luc Derudder to design the sets and wrote a score full of the sort of popular music that Tailleferre knew from her childhood: polka, quadrilles, waltzes etc. In the Finale of this work, which she called a "divertissement choréographique,", she chose the popular form of the "French Cancan,