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He wrote only fourteen published works, the most famous of which is his Requiem, Op 9.
As a schoolboy, he attended Rouen Cathedral Choir School where he was a chorister, and where he studied piano and organ. When he was 17 he went to Paris, and studied organ with Charles Tournemire, and at 18 he entered the Paris Conservatory, where he studied composition under Charles-Marie Widor and Paul Dukas and organ with Eugene Gigout .
Between 1922 and 1928 he won several prizes, including prizes for composition, piano accompaniment, harmony and organ. In 1927 he became an assistant to Louis Vierne at Notre Dame. Vierne wanted Duruflé to succeed him but the authorities were somewhat displeased with Vierne and appointed Leonce de Saint-Martin instead. However it was Duruflé who was alongside Vierne at the console in Notre Dame when Vierne died during his 1750th recital in the church.
In 1929 he won the Paris "Friends of the organ" prize, for organ and improvisation, and he obtained the position of organist at the church of St-Etienne-du-Mont , Paris. His Op 3. piece Prelude, Recitative and Variations for flute, viola and piano was given its first performance by Marcel MoyseMarcel Moyse was a famous French flute player, for whom many pieces were written. He was also a gifted flute teacher, and he produced several studies and exercises for flute., Maurice Vieux and Jean Doyen .
He gave the premiere of PoulencFrancis Jean Marcel Poulenc ( January 7, 1899 January 30, 1963) was a French composer. Poulenc was born in Paris. His mother, an amateur pianist, taught him to play, and music formed a part of family life. As a young man, in 1918 he was fulfilling his Nat's Organ Concerto under Roger DésormièreRoger Desormiere was a French conductor. He is well known for one of the earliest, and arguably still one of the best, recordings of Debussy's opera Pelleas et Melisande''. in Paris in 1939. He had earlier advised Poulenc on the registration of the solo part.
From 1942 he assisted Marcel DupréMarcel Dupr ( May 3, 1886 May 30, 1971), was a French organist and composer. He was born in Rouen in France, the son of Albert Dupre and Alice Chauviere. From a musical family, he was an early prodigy. He started at the Paris Conservatoire in 1904, and st in organ classes at the Paris Conservatory.
In 1947 he wrote his most famous piece, his Requiem Op. 9, for choir, soloists and orchestra, which was given its first performance by Paul ParayPaul Paray (born Le Treport, May 24, 1886 died Monte Carlo, October 10, 1979) was a French conductor and composer. He spent the latter part of his life in the USA working with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. His father, Auguste, was a sculptor and organis. The Requiem has some similarities with Fauré's, though it also shows the strong influence of Gregorian chantGregorian chant is also known as plainchant or plainsong, and is a form of monophonic, unaccompanied singing, which was developed in the Catholic church, mainly during the period 800- 1000. It takes its name from Pope St. Gregory the Great. This music was. The piece was reworked into two other versions, and now exists in three versions - one for full orchestra, one for reduced orchestra, and a version with organ.
The organist Marie-Madeleine Chevalier became his assistant a St-Etienne-du-Mont in 1947. He married her in 1953 at the age of 51. They shared the position of organist at St-Etienne-du-Mont thereafter.
He gave up performing after a car accident in 1975.
His last published work (1977) is a setting of the Lord's Prayer for 4 mixed voices.
Although he is most famous for his Requiem, it must not be forgotten that he was a distinguished organist, and he gave numerous performances, including the premieres of Louis Vierne's 6th Symphony (1935) and Poulenc's organ concerto. He composed "Prélude et Fugue sur le nom d'Alain" in memory of Jehan Alain, an organist killed in action in 1940.
He also made numerous recordings, including his own Requiem, but also Poulenc's organ concerto, Saint-Saëns's 3rd Symphony, Charpentier's Midnight Mass for Christmas, and performed in recordings of Faure's Requiem, and Honegger's Christmas Cantata and King David. He also made recordings of Bach's organ music, some of them with his wife Marie-Madeleine, besides other recordings of organ music including works by Tournemire and Vierne and other composers.
He died in Paris in 1986.
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