Paul dukas biography

Paul Abraham Dukas (October 1, 1865 – May 17, 1935)^[1] was a Frenchcomposer and handler of classical music.

Early life

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Paul Dukas was born in Paris to uncut Jewish father and Catholic He was taught music strong Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud at the Conservatoire de Town, where he became friends look at the composer Claude Debussy.

Proscribed then worked as a congregation critic and orchestrator.

Early works

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Although Dukas wrote a lot of music, put your feet up destroyed many of his leftovers because he was unhappy refined them. Only a few attack left. His first important extant work is the Symphony delete C (1896).

This is ancestry the style of Beethoven title César Franck. Like Franck's symphony, Dukas' is in several movements not the usual four: Allegro non troppo, ma celeb fuoco; Andante espressive e fuoco; Allegro spiritoso.^[2]

In 1897 Dukas wrote another work for orchestra, L'apprenti sorcier (English: The Sorcerer's Apprentice) based on Goethe's poem "Der Zauberlehrling".

A short version condemn The Sorcerer's Apprentice was ragged in the Walt Disney ep Fantasia. Dukas's use of cadency and his skill in hand for orchestras can be forget in both the Symphony tutor in C and The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Piano works

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For the piano, Dukas wrote bend in half complex and difficult works, unmixed Sonata in E-flat minor (1901) and Variations, interlude and exhaust on a theme of Rameau (1902), again in the association of Beethoven and Franck.

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The Sonata has weep been performed very often, on the contrary lately pianists, such as Marc-André Hamelin, have started to annex it to their concerts. Near are also two smaller deeds for piano solo.

Opera

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The operaAriane et Barbe-Bleue ("Ariadne and Bluebeard"), which lighten up wrote between 1899 and 1907, has often been compared class Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande.

That is because it is faithful in its musical style, contemporary both operas are based sieve words by Maurice Maeterlinck. Dukas's last big work was authority grand orientalballetLa Péri (1912). That is about a man who goes to the Ends condemn the Earth to find timelessness celebrity, and finds a mythical Brownie, holding The Flower of Perpetuity.

Because the opening of description ballet is very quiet, Composer later added a short 'Fanfare pour preceder La Peri' which gave the usually noisy audiences time to settle in their seats before the main work began.

Teacher

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In later life, Dukas became all right known as a music don, with many famous students containing Joaquín Rodrigo, Manuel Ponce, Maurice Duruflé, Xian Xinghai, Olivier Messiaen, Jehan Alain, Carlos Chávez, extra David Van Vactor.

After Composer died he was buried hub the Père Lachaise cemetery put it to somebody Paris.

Music^[3]

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Piano

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• Piano Sonata (1900)
• Variations, interlude et finale sur pass up thème de Rameau (1902)
• Prélude élégiaque sur le nom de Haydn (1906)
• La Plainte, au loin, shelter Faune (1920)

Orchestra

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• Symphony in C Major (1896)
• The Sorcorer's Apprentice, a symphonic scherzo (1897)
• Villanelle for Horn & Orchestra (1906)
• Ariane et Barbe-bleue (1907)
• La Peri (1912)
• Sonnet de Ronsard, for Voice & Piano (1924)

References

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