Henri Paul Julien Dutilleux was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.
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33 Facts About Henri Dutilleux
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Henri Dutilleux received several major prizes throughout his career, notably the Grand Prix de Rome, International Music Council's International Rostrum of Composers, the Grand-Croix de la Legion d'honneur, the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, the Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society and the Marie-Josee Kravis Prize for New Music.
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Henri Dutilleux taught at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique, and was twice composer in residence at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts.
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Henri Dutilleux was the great-grandson of the painter Constant Dutilleux and grandson of the composer Julien Koszul.
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Henri Dutilleux was a cousin of the mathematician Jean-Louis Koszul.
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Henri Dutilleux studied harmony, counterpoint, and piano with Victor Gallois at the Douai Conservatory before leaving for the Conservatoire de Paris.
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Henri Dutilleux worked for a year as a medical orderly in the army and returned to Paris in 1940, where he worked as a pianist, arranger and music teacher.
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Henri Dutilleux served as Professor of Composition at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris from 1961 to 1970.
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Henri Dutilleux was appointed to the staff of the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique in 1970 and was composer-in-residence at Tanglewood in 1995 and 1998.
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Henri Dutilleux's students included Gerard Grisey, Francis Bayer, Alain Gagnon, Jacques Hetu, and Kenneth Hesketh.
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Henri Dutilleux died on 22 May 2013 in Paris, aged 97, and was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery, in the same grave as Genevieve, his wife who died in 2009.
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Henri Dutilleux's tombstone is made of grey granite and bears the epitaph "Compositeur".
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Henri Dutilleux's music extends the legacies of French composers such as Debussy and Ravel but is clearly influenced by Bela Bartok and Igor Stravinsky.
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Henri Dutilleux's music contains distant echoes of jazz, as can be heard in the plucked double bass strings at the beginning of his First Symphony and his frequent use of syncopated rhythms.
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Henri Dutilleux often calls for Ray Robinson-style cup mutes in the brass section, which seems to indicate the influence of big band music.
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Henri Dutilleux was greatly enamoured of vocalists, especially the jazz singer Sarah Vaughan and the great French chanson singers.
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Some of Henri Dutilleux's trademarks include very refined orchestral textures; complex rhythms; a preference for atonality and modality over tonality; the use of pedal points that serve as atonal pitch centers; and "reverse variation", whereby a theme is revealed gradually, appearing in its complete form only after a few partial, tentative expositions.
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Henri Dutilleux's music was influenced by art and literature, such as the works of Vincent van Gogh, Charles Baudelaire and Marcel Proust.
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Henri Dutilleux renounced most of the works he composed before it because he did not believe them to be representative of his mature standards, considering many of them to be too derivative to have merit.
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Henri Dutilleux published various works for piano and 3 strophes sur le nom de Sacher for solo cello.
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Henri Dutilleux then returned to orchestral works in 1978 with Timbres, espace, mouvement ou la nuit etoilee, inspired by Van Gogh's The Starry Night.
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In 2010, Henri Dutilleux added a third movement to his chamber work Les citations.
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Henri Dutilleux played them in a concert at the Hotel de Lauzun in Dutilleux's presence.
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Henri Dutilleux allowed only a small fraction of his work to be published.
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Henri Dutilleux often expressed a wish to write more chamber music, notably a second string quartet, a piece for clarinet and ensemble, one for solo double bass, and more piano preludes.
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Henri Dutilleux long considered composing an opera but abandoned that project because he could not find a libretto that appealed to him.
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Those who commissioned works from Henri Dutilleux include Szell, Rostropovich, Stern, Mutter, Charles Munch, and Seiji Ozawa.
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Henri Dutilleux disowned many of the compositions he wrote before his Piano Sonata.
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Henri Dutilleux disowned most of the music he wrote before his Piano Sonata of 1948.
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Henri Dutilleux wrote barely a dozen major works in his career, destroyed much of his early music and often revised what he had written.
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