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Paul Dukas ( October 1, 1865 - May 17, 1935) was a French composer of classical music.Dukas was born in Paris and studied, under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud among others, at the Conservatoire there, where he was a friend of Claude Debussy. After completing his studies he found work as an orchestrator and critic.
Although Dukas wrote a fair amount of music, he destroyed many of his pieces out of dissatisfaction with them, and only a few remain. His first surviving work of note is the energetic Symphony (1896) which belongs to the tradition of Beethoven and César FranckCesar-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck ( December 10, 1822 November 8, 1890) was a composer and organist. Franck was born in Liege. His father had ambitions for him to become a concert pianist, and he studied at the conservatoire in Liege before going. It was followed by another orchestral work, L'apprenti sorcier, better known under its English title The Sorcerer's ApprenticeThe Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English name of both an 1897 symphonic poem by Paul Dukas L'apprenti sorcier in French), and of a 1797 ballad by Goethe Der Zauberlehrling in German), which inspired the musical work. Goethe, in turn, based his poem on a s (1897), which is based on GoetheJohann Wolfgang von Goethe (pronounced ['go t]) ( August 28, 1749 March 22, 1832) was a German writer, politician, humanist, scientist, and philosopher. As a writer, Goethe was one of the paramount figures of German literature and European Romanticism dur's poem "Der Zauberlehrling". This piece was used in the Walt DisneyFor the same named company; see The Walt Disney Company Walter Elias Disney ( December 5, 1901 December 15, 1966) was an American animated film producer and animator. He was also the creator of an American-based theme park called Disneyland, and the found film FantasiaFantasia has other uses, see Fantasia (disambiguation Fantasia (1940) is an motion picture which was a Walt Disney experiment in animation and music. The soundtrack of the film consists of seven pieces of classical music, played by the Philadelphia Orches, which accounts for much of its fame. Dukas's rhythmic mastery and vivid orchestration are evident in both works.
For the piano, Dukas wrote two complex and technically demanding large-scale works, a SonataSonata (From Latin and Italian sonare 'to sound'), in music, literally means a piece "played" as opposed to cantata (Latin cantare to sing), a piece sung. The term, being vague, naturally evolved through the history of music, designating a variety of form (1901) and Variations, interlude and finale on a theme of Rameau (1902), again reminiscent of Beethoven and Franck. The opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue (Ariadne and Bluebeard), on which he worked from 1899 to 1907, has often been compared to Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, partly because of musical similarities and partly because both operas are based on plays by Maurice Maeterlinck. The sumptuous oriental ballet La Péri (1912) was Dukas's last major work.
In the last decades of his life, Dukas became well known as a teacher of composition, with many famous students such as Joaquín Rodrigo, Maurice Duruflé, Olivier Messiaen and Jehan Alain. He died in Paris and is one of many famous people to be buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery there.
Dukas, Paul
Dukas, Paul
Dukas, Paul
Dukas, Paul
Dukas, Paul
Dukas, Paul
