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Paul Dukas was a French composer best known for his orchestral scherzo "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," which became widely famous after appearing in the Disney film Fantasia. Though he composed relatively few works, his skillful orchestration and dramatic style made him an important figure in French classical music during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Paul Dukas was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher.
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- France
- Active from
- 1865
- Active to
- 1935
Discography
- Ariane et Barbe Bleu (Ariane and Bluebeard) / Concerto no. 1, in B-flat minor (1st movement)1948
- Ariane et Barbe Bleue (Ariane and Bluebeard)1948
- Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice / Weinberger: Schwanda / Liszt: Les Préludes / Strauss: Salome1957
- The Sorcerer’s Apprentice1969
- Dukas: L’apprenti sorcier / Debussy: Prélude à l’après‐midi d’un faune / Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte1980
- La Péri - Symphonie En Ut Majeur1985
- La Péri / L'Apprenti Sorcier / Polyeucte1987
- Prélude elégiaque / La Plaint, au loin, du faune... / Variations, interlude et finale / Sonate1988
- Symphony in C Major, Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, Introduction to Act III, La Péi, L'Apprenti sorcier [Musical Heritage Society]1989
- Variations, Interlude et Finale / Sonate / Prélude élégiaque / La plainte, au loin, du faune ...1989
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Paul Dukas (1 October 1865 – 17 May 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. 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. <a href
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- Lifespan
- 1865–1935
- Nationality
- FR
- Role / Field
- Music teachers, Music critics, Composers, Compositeurs, Teacher, Art music
- Language
- fre, fra
- Gender
- Male
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Paul
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- 1st arrondissement of Paris
- Place of death
- Paris
- Occupation
- pianist
- Educated at
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Employer
- Conservatoire de Paris
- Languages spoken
- French
- Notable work
- Piano Sonata
- Student of
- Ernest Guiraud
- Movement
- impressionism in music
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Paul Dukas 01.jpg
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Paul Dukas
- date of birth
- 1865-10-01
- date of death
- 1935-05-18
- name in native language
- Paul Dukas
- writing language
- French
- birth name
- Paul Abraham Dukas
- member of
- Académie des beaux-arts
- P8168
- Lyubomyr Polatayko
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Works in European collections
16 objects attributed to Paul Dukas, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Paul Dukas
Paul Abraham Dukas ( French: [dykɑ(ː)s] 1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical and abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. His best-known work is the orchestral piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier), the fame of which has eclipsed that of his other surviving works, largely due to its usage in the 1940 Disney film Fantasia. Among these are the opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue, his Symphony in C and Piano Sonata in E-flat minor, the Variations, Interlude and Finale on a Theme by Rameau (for solo piano), and a ballet, La Péri.
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