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BIOGRAPHY

Paul Dukas was born in Paris, France on October 1, 1865. He was a student at the Paris Conservatory where he studied piano, harmony, and composition. He won the Prix de Rome for a counterpoint and fugue in 1886 and again in 1888 with the cantata, Velleda.

He was the music critic for the Revue Hebdomadaire and Gazette des Beaux-Arts and at the same time, he was a professor of orchestration at the Conservatoire. His strong critical sense led him to destroy a number of his compositions and only allow a relatively small number of works to be published. He remained influential and respected as a teacher.

By far the best known composition by Dukas is the symphonic scherzo L’Apprenti Sorcier. The music was recently popularized by Walt Disney, when he included a pictorial version of it in Fantasia with Mickey Mouse as the naughty apprentice.

Abraham Dukas was born in Paris on October 1, 1865.

A diligent man with a modest personality, Paul Dukas was an intense self-critic. For these self-critical characteristics, he destroyed many of his compositions.

While he wrote lots of music in various genres, he only accepted a few that were satisfying. The Sorcerer's Apprentice (L'apprenti sorcier) orchestral piece is his best works that spread the fame to his other works.

Composer Paul Dukas' biography includes a wealth of writings on music and a modest composition output. A Symphony in C major, the opera Ariane et Barbe-Bleue, two other works for solo piano, and a ballet La Peri are his other famous works.Paul Dukas was a man of character.

After French Musicians were divided into progressive and conservative, he didn't side with any but admired both of them. Various known composers of his time inspired his composing career. Some of them are Berlioz, Beethoven, Franck, Debussy

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