1. Darius Milhaud's compositions are influenced by jazz and Brazilian music and make extensive use of polytonality.
17 Facts About Darius Milhaud
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Darius Milhaud taught many future jazz and classical composers, including Burt Bacharach, Dave Brubeck, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis among others.
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Darius Milhaud grew up in Aix-en-Provence, which he regarded as his true ancestral city.
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Darius Milhaud's mother was partly Sephardi on her father's side, via a Sephardi family from Italy.
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Darius Milhaud studied at the Paris Conservatory, where he met fellow Les Six members Arthur Honegger and Germaine Tailleferre.
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Darius Milhaud studied composition with Charles Widor and harmony and counterpoint with Andre Gedalge.
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From 1917 to 1919, he served as secretary to Paul Claudel, the poet and dramatist who was then the French ambassador to Brazil, and with whom Darius Milhaud collaborated for many years, writing music for many of his poems and plays.
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On his return to France, Darius Milhaud composed works influenced by Brazilian popular music, including songs by pianist and composer Ernesto Nazareth.
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Darius Milhaud produced Saudades do Brasil, a suite of 12 dances evoking 12 Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods.
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Darius Milhaud dedicated his Fifth String Quartet to Arnold Schoenberg, and the next year conducted both the French and British premieres of Pierrot lunaire after multiple rehearsals.
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In 1925, Darius Milhaud married his cousin Madeleine, an actress and reciter.
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In 1930 she gave birth to a son, the painter and sculptor Daniel Darius Milhaud, who was the couple's only child.
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Darius Milhaud secured a teaching post at Mills College in Oakland, California, where he composed the opera Bolivar and collaborated with Henri Temianka and the Paganini Quartet.
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In 1947 Darius Milhaud was among the founders of the Music Academy of the West summer conservatory, where songwriter Burt Bacharach was among his students.
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Darius Milhaud taught on the faculty of the Aspen Music Festival and School.
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Darius Milhaud died in Geneva at the age of 81, and he was buried in the Saint-Pierre Cemetery in Aix-en-Provence.
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Darius Milhaud was very prolific and composed for a wide range of genres.