Henri Dutilleux

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Henri Dutilleux (French: [i dytij]; 22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the twentieth century.

His small body of published work, which earned international recognition, followed Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Albert Roussel, and Olivier Messiaen, but in a idiosyncratic style. A piano sonata, two symphonies, Tout un monde lointain... (A whole different world), the string quartet Ainsi la nuit (Thus the Night) and a sonatine for flute and piano are among his notable works.

Some of these are considered masterpieces of twentieth-century classical music.

Seiji Ozawa, Charles Munch, George Szell, Mstislav Rostropovich, the Juilliard String Quartet, Isaac Stern, Paul Sacher, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Renée Fleming, and Seiji Ozawa were among those artists to commission works from him. "Mr Dutilleux's position in French music was unashamedly solitary," Paul Griffiths wrote in the New York Times.

He was unaffected by both Olivier Messiaen and Pierre Boulez in age, although he showed an interest in their careers. But his voice, which was characterized by sensuously handled harmony and colour, was his own. "Dutilleux has received many major awards throughout his career, including the Grand Prix de Rome (1938), the International Music Council's International Rostrum of Composers (2005), the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (2005), and the Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music (2011). He spent 18 years as the Head of Music Production for Radio France in addition to his duties as a composer.

He also worked at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and was a composer in residence at the Tanglewood music center in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts.

Life

Henri Dutilleux was born in Angers, Maine-et-Loire, on January 22nd, 1916. He was the great-grandson and grandson of composer Julien Koszul's. He was also a cousin of mathematician Jean-Louis Koszul. Before heading to the Conservatoire de Paris, Victor Gallois studied harmony, counterpoint, and piano at the Douai Conservatory. He attended Jean and Nol Gallon's classes between 1933 and 1938 (harmony and counterpoint, in which he shared first prize with cellist Paul Tortelier), Henri Büsser (composition) and Maurice Emmanuel (history of music).

Dutilleux won the Prix de Rome in 1938 for his cantata L'anneau du roi, but he did not complete his stay in Rome due to the outbreak of World War II. He spent a year in the army as a medical orderly and then returned to Paris in 1940, where he served as a pianist, arranger, and music tutor. He conducted the Paris Opera's choir in 1942.

From 1945 to 1963, Dutilleux served as the Head of Music Production for Radio France. He served as Professor of Composition at École Normale de Musique de Paris from 1961 to 1970. He was born in 1970 and spent time in Tanglewood as composer-in-residence. Gérard Grisey, Francis Bayer, Alain Gagnon, Jacques Hétu, and Kenneth Hesketh were among his students. In 2006, Walter Fink invited him to be the 16th composer to appear in the Rheingau Musik Festival's annual Komponistenporträt.

Dutilleux had a studio on Île Saint-Louis for many years. He died on May 22nd, 2013, aged 97, and was buried in Montparnasse Cemetery, in the same grave as Geneviève, his wife who died in 2009. His tombstone is made of gray granite and bears the word "compositeur" in its epigraph.

Early works

Dutilleux discarded the bulk of the writing he wrote before his 1948 Piano Sonata. However, several of them are still played and recorded, in particular the Sonatine for Flute and Piano.

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Awards and prizes

• Grand Prix de Rome (for his cantata L'Anneau du Roi) – 1938
• UNESCO's International Rostrum of Composers (for Symphony No. 1) – 1955
• Grand Prix National de Musique (for his entire oeuvre) – 1967
• Praemium Imperiale (Japan – for his entire oeuvre) – 1994
• Prix MIDEM Classique de Cannes (for The Shadows of Time) – 1999
• Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur – 2004
• Ernst von Siemens Music Prize (for his entire oeuvre) – 2005
• Prix MIDEM Classique de Cannes (for his entire oeuvre) – 2007
• Cardiff University Honorary Fellowship (for his entire oeuvre) – 2008
• Gold Medal of the Royal Philharmonic Society – 2008
• Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music – 2011