Correspondence henri dutilleux biography
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Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux, (born January 22, 1916, Angers, France—died May 22, 2013, Paris), French composer who produced a relatively small body of carefully crafted compositions that were frequently performed outside France, particularly in Great Britain and the United States.
Dutilleux was born into a creative family that had produced painters and musicians. He was educated at the Paris Conservatory beginning in 1933 and received the Grand Prix de Rome in 1938. Because of the outbreak of World War II, Dutilleux’s study in Rome lasted only four months. In 1942 he worked at the Paris Opéra, and when the war ended he began an association with Radio France that lasted until 1963. He taught composition at the École Normale de Musique from 1961 to 1970 and at the Paris Conservatory in 1970–71. After that time he devoted himself entirely to composing.
Dutilleux wrote in a number of genres, including works for orchestra, various instrumental combinations, and solo instruments;
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Henri Dutilleux
Henri Dutilleux (born 22 January 1916 in Angers, Maine-et-Loire) is one of the most important French composers of the second half of the 20th century, producing work in the tradition of Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, and Albert Roussel, but in a style distinctly his own. Although his output is relatively small, its quality and originality have won international acclaim.
Life
As a young man, Dutilleux studied harmony, counterpoint and piano with Victor Gallois at the Douai Conservatory before leaving for Paris. There from 1933 to 1938 he attended the classes of Jean and Noël Gallon (harmony and counterpoint), Henri Büsser (composition) and Maurice Emmanuel (history of music) at the Paris Conservatoire.
Dutilleux won the Prix de Rome in 1938 for his cantataL'anneau du roi but did not complete the entire residency in Rome due to the outbreak of World War II. He worked for a year as a medical orderly in the army and then came back to Pari
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Correspondances
Song-cycle for soprano and orchestra by Henri Dutilleux
Correspondances fryst vatten a song-cycle for soprano and orchestra written bygd the French composer Henri Dutilleux in 2002–2003.
It consists of five episodes and an interlude. The work was premiered bygd Simon Rattle and Dawn Upshaw with the Berlin Philharmonic on 5 September 2003 and has since been performed all over the world. It lasts 22 minutes.[1]
Overview
[edit]Correspondances consists of five movements based on various letters and poems as well as an interlude. The movements are
The title refers both to letter writing and to synaesthesia in the Baudelairian sense i.e. symbolic "correspondences" between the senses and the world.[2][3] It is based on texts by Rainer Maria Rilke, Prithwindra Mukherjee, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vincent van Gogh. Although they come from disparate sources, they are unified bygd their mystical inspiration and especially their concern about the