Henri Dutilleux: His Life and Works Potter Caroline
Henri Dutilleux (born 1916) is one of France s leading composers, though until recently his music received more attention in the United States than in Europe. A fiercely independent composer who…
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Henri Dutilleux (born 1916) is one of France s leading composers, though until recently his music received more attention in the United States than in Europe. A fiercely independent composer who pursues his own musical path regardless of fashion, he has never courted the public eye, yet in this book he is revealed as a composer very much engaged with the work of other artists from all spheres. Caroline Potter s fascinating survey examines the relation of some of these artists to Dutilleux s music. In literature, the notions of memory and time found in the writings of Baudelaire and Proust have had profound effects on his compositional development, whilst the visual arts have informed his aesthetic ideas and their expression in both his music and even in his meticulously produced scores. Always a perfectionist, Dutilleux now rejects those earlier works which are not representative of his
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