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  Paul Dukas: Biography - Classic Cat
Paul Dukas (October 1, 1865-May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French composer and teacher of classical music.
Paul Abraham Dukas was from a French-Jewish family.
Although Dukas wrote a fair amount of music, he was perfectionistic and, unfortunately, destroyed many of his pieces out of dissatisfaction with them.
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 Play Me a Story- The Sorcerer's Apprentice Story
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is considered to be "program music" which is music in which the composer uses musical themes to describe a particular event, a narrative idea, or develop a character.
Dukas based his symphonic work on a poem written by Goethe, a German poet.
A young boy from the village was apprenticed to a sorcerer.
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  Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas was a French composer and teacher of classical music who was born on October 1, 1865 in Paris and died on May 17, 1935 in Paris.
Paul Dukas (October 1, 1865-May 17, 1935) was a Parisian-born French Composer and teacher of classical music.
Although Dukas wrote a Fair amount of music, he was perfectionistic and, unfortunately, destroyed many of his pieces out of dissatisfaction with Them.
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 Paul Dukas Biography - famous Paul Dukas Classical collection and Paul Dukas Music Reviews.
A friend of Debussy at the Conservatoire and a pupil of Bizet's friend Guiraud, Paul Dukas came near to winning the Prix de Rome, but when he left the Conservatoire found an early musical career as a critic and as an orchestrator.
His strong critical sense led him to destroy a number of his compositions and only to allow a relatively small number of works to be published.
JOHANSON: Nalle Pub (Winnie the Pooh) / DUKAS: The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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  Paul Dukas - 1865-?
It is well that there was only one Debussy in France, else had we all become lotus-eaters!
Paul Dukas's orchestral scherzo, "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," is a crackling Gallic joke.
The ballad of Goethe affixed to the score tells an old and fantastical tale of the magician who was master of a broom`which, by means of incantation, he could call to his bidding.
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  Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas (October 1, 1865 - May 17, 1935) was a French composer of classical music.
Dukas was born in Paris and studied at the Conservatoire[?] there, where he was a friend of Claude Debussy.
Paul Dukas is one of many famous people to be buried in the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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 dukas.htm
Dukas entered the Paris Conservatory in 1882 where he studied piano, harmony, and composition.
When required to give up the conservatory for the army, Dukas considered this a valuable period, as he was allowed the leisure time to study the scores of the classics where he gained insight into composition.
Dukas’ L’Apprenti Sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) is his best-known work, followed by his two operas, La Peri and Ariadne and Bluebeard.
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 Paul Dukas biography - 8notes.com
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.
For the piano, Dukas wrote two complex and technically demanding large-scale works, a Sonata (1901) and Variations, interlude and finale on a theme of Rameau (1902), again reminiscent of Beethoven and Franck.
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.
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 Paul Dukas
Dukas con su espíritu cartesiano recuerda algunos autores del renacimiento, a esos artistas que meditan antes de crear.
Paul Dukas, figura destacada de la escuela francesa moderna, es continuador de la tradición espiritual de Rameau y Berlioz.
Paul Valéry apreciaba en él “la ruptura evidente y franca con la facilidad”, “la severidad en la búsqueda de si mismo y en la persecución en la poesía pura en su arte”.
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 Paul Dukas information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Paul Dukas (October 1, 1865 – May 17, 1935) was a French composer of classical music.
Dukas was born Paul Abraham Dukas in Paris to a Jewish family and studied, under Théodore Dubois and Ernest Guiraud among others, at the Conservatoire there, where he was a friend of Claude Debussy.
For the piano, Dukas wrote two complex and technically demanding large-scale works, a Sonata (1901) and Variations, interlude and finale on a theme of Rameau (1902), again reminiscent of Beethoven and Franck.
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 Paul Dukas
Paul Dukas en compagnie de Mme Chausson et ses trois enfants : Jean-Michel, Marianne et Laurent, vers 1902, dans l'escalier de l'hôtel particulier de la famille Chausson, boulevard de Courcelles à Paris.
Après plusieurs années de silence, Paul Dukas nous livrait en 1921 un hommage à son ami Debussy avec la Plainte au loin du faune pour piano, et enfin, un Sonnet de Ronsard, pour chant et piano, publié en 1924 à l’occasion du quatrième centenaire de la naissance du poète.
Paul Dukas à son harmonium dans sa maison d'Eragny-sur-Oise, vers 1895.
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 Dukas Paul (1865-1935)
PAUL DUKAS (1865-1935), musicien d'élite, qui, dans notre époque friande de querelles esthétiques, de polémique: et de controverses, aura joui du privilège unique de n'être discuté par personne.
Mæterlinck offrait à Paul Dukas un beau poème, le poème de la délivrance, un poème plein de pensée, plein de sous-entendus symboliques, de fécondes réticences, à dessein un peu vague dans quelques-unes de ses indications, pour mieux laisser sa part à la méditation, — riche d'humanité dans son fond un peu obscur.
Paul Dukas a trop vécu dans l'atmosphère des musiques franckiste et wagnérienne pour s'imaginer qu'on renoncerait jamais à faire de l'expression le but principal de l'art.
www.musicologie.org /Biographies/dukas_paul.html   (3767 words)

  
 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
Paul Dukas studied at the Paris Conservatoire and was a pupil of Bizet's friend Guiraud.
A year before, in 1896, Dukas had completed his only symphony, a work that deserves more attention than it has generally received.
His acclaimed opera "Ariane et Barbe-bleu" (Ariadne and Bluebeard) was based on a play of the same name by Maeterlinck.
www.karadar.it /Dictionary/dukas.html   (159 words)

  
 Paul Dukas | Classical music composer
By Dukas, Paul (1865-1935); [Rameau, Jean Philippe (1683-1764)].
A friend of Debussy at the Conservatoire and a pupil of Bizet’s friend Guiraud, Paul Dukas came near to winning the Prix de Rome, but when he left the Conservatoire found an early musical career as a critic and as an orchestrator.
His strong critical sense led him to destroy a number of his compositions and only to allow a relatively small number of works to be published.
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 Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935)
Französischer Komponist: es gibt kaum jemanden, der den „Zauberlehrling" (1897) von Dukas nicht kennt - so oft hört man dieses Orchesterscherzo nach dem Gedicht von Goethe im Konzertsaal.
Dennoch sind die Oper „Ariane et Barbe bleue" (1907) und das Ballett „La Péri" (1911) Dukas' bedeutendste Werke, Die Oper ist in einer zeitgemäß modernen Tonsprache geschrieben, die sehr subtil und von weit tieferer emotioneller Bedeutung ist, als man aus dem Titel schließen könnte.
Dukas hat auch Werke alter Meister durch Erarbeitung entsprechender Ausgaben zugänglich gemacht - ein Beispiel sind seine
www.karadar.com /Worterbuch/dukas.html   (108 words)

  
 Paul Dukas | Classical music composer
By Dukas, Paul (1865-1935); [Rameau, Jean Philippe (1683-1764)].
Johann Sebastian Bach, Hector Berlioz, Paul [composer] Dukas, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Modest Mussorgsky, Camille Saint-Saens
Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Fryderyk Chopin, Gaetano Donizetti, Paul [composer] Dukas, Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Amilcare Ponchielli, Gioachino Rossini, Johann II Strauss, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner
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 Paul Dukas News - Topix   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Paul Dukas News continually updated by readers like you.
It is hard to say why works that were once staples of the concert repertory lose popularity.
I edit the Paul Dukas News pages on Topix when no humans are available to help.
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 Paul Dukas - Sorcerer's Apprentice   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Parisian Paul Dukas (1865 - 1935) possessed great talent and was deemed a bright prospect, but he wrote sparingly.
He was interested in music at a young age, but Dukas' family was too poor to afford lessons.
He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1882, where his musical appetite could be satisfied.
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 Paul Dukas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Paul Dukas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and in 1909 became a...
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 Amazon.com: Paul Dukas: Symphony In C Major/Polyeucte Overture: Music: Paul Dukas,Dennis Simons,Yan Pascal Tortelier   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Amazon.com: Paul Dukas: Symphony In C Major/Polyeucte Overture: Music: Paul Dukas,Dennis Simons,Yan Pascal Tortelier
Dukas and Debussy were exact contemporaries, but Dukas's music tends to follow the 19th-century strain of French Romanticism in the grand manner of Berlioz.
Dukas is mainly known for his "Sorcerer's Apprentice," and not much else.
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 Paul Dukas
Paul Abraham Dukas was born on October 1, 1865 into a Jewish family in Paris...
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 99Malls: Paul Dukas Sheet Music and Scores
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Dukas Sonata in E Flat Minor -- more info
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 Amazon.co.uk: Classic FM Music for Fitness: Music: Aaron Copland,Edvard Grieg,Paul Dukas,Manuel de Falla,Antonio ...
~ Aaron Copland (Composer), Edvard Grieg (Composer), Paul Dukas (Composer), Manuel de Falla (Composer), Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), et al.
Composer: Aaron Copland, Edvard Grieg, Paul Dukas, Manuel de Falla, Antonio Vivaldi, et al.
Dukas: The Sorceror’s Apprentice made famous by the movie Fantasia
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 Amazon.de: Fantasia: DVD: Leopold Stokowski,Johann Sebastian Bach,Peter Iljitsch Tschaikowsky,Paul Dukas,Igor ...
Regisseur(e): Ben Sharpsteen, Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield
Fantasia, Disneys wundervolle Visualisierung klassischer Musik aus dem Jahr 1940, war erst der dritte lange Trickfilm nach Schneewittchen und Pinocchio, zeigte aber dennoch schon die Größe dessen, was Zeichner und Animatoren vermochten, lange bevor Computer grafische Welten erschaffen konnten.
Der Trickzauberlehrling Walt Disney, dem die Kosten über den Kopf gewachsen waren, fand seine Rettung in Gestalt des Zauberers mit dem Dirigentenstab, Leopold Stokowski, welcher vorschlug, einen Konzertfilm zu konzipieren.
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