Selected Music By Individual Members of Les Six
- Salade by Milhaud; premiered 1924 in a production of Count Etienne de Beaumont
- La nouvelle Cythère by Tailleferre; written in 1929 for the Ballets Russes and unproduced because of Diaghilev's sudden death
- Cinq bagatelles by Auric
- Sonate pour violoncelle et piano by Poulenc
- Flute Sonata, Op. 164 (1956–7) by Poulenc
- Scaramouche by Milhaud
- Le bœuf sur le toit by Milhaud
- Sonate pour violon seul by Honegger
- Danse de la chèvre (Dance of the Goat) for solo flute by Honegger
- Sonate champêtre for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon and Piano by Tailleferre
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